Question Boot problem after cloning to SSD

[SerialSniper14]

I just cloned my very old HDD to a new Samsung 500GB SSD. This laptop is from 2009ish.

I used Macrium Reflect and the clone completed successfully. I swapped the drives and got a message from BIOS saying something about a requested change to the TPM state "enable + change + activate" or something like that. I clicked "execute" but now the boot just gets stuck on something about my Ethernet controller. It endlessly tries to connect to "Client MAC Address" following by the associated mac address and a GUID number, and a continuously ticking forward/back slash by "DHCP". This seems to loop endlessly when the process fails. I'm not sure what it's trying to do but I CAN get into BIOS to change the TPM state again.

Also, the original drive was MBR but the new SSD was initialized to GPT. A short instructional on the Macrium website indicated that the process for the clone was no different than if they were the same so I proceeded like I usually do when cloning.

Also, both Windows 7 and Ubuntu are installed and I normally boot up using Windows Boot Manager. I believe I installed Ubuntu with Wubi long ago.

Unsure if any of that is related to the problem.

Edit: Here's where I'm stuck

 

[jojesa]

You need to disable Bitlocker encryption before cloning the drive.
If you have an active TPM chip and Bitlocker is enable you won't be able to access the new cloned drive.

 

[SerialSniper14]

You need to disable Bitlocker encryption before cloning the drive.
If you have an active TPM chip and Bitlocker is enable you won't be able to access the new cloned drive.

I don't have BitLocker it seems. I looked through Control Panel and didn't see anything. I did have TrueCrypt but when I opened it nothing was actually encrypted and I don't recall encrypting any drive so I just uninstalled it.

There was a program in control panel called Infineon Security Platform but I've never used it and I received an error message when I try to open it.

 

[jojesa]

Is that a work laptop?
There is some security enabled on your laptop, maybe a fingerprint reader or iris eye scanner.
TPM user settings can be managed by opening the Infineon Security Platform Settings Tool, available on your apps.
You could also disable TPM Security in the BIOS.
That has to be done before you clone the drive.

 

[SerialSniper14]

It's an old, personal laptop that I use for work since the company is too cheap to provide one.

I DO have a fingerprint scanner that I rarely use. Like I said, I can't open the Infineon Security Platform, I just get an error message.

I'll try disabling TPM in BIOS, cloning, and then booting from the new drive. Will keep you posted.

 

[SerialSniper14]

So I chose "disable + deactivate" under TPM settings. Then I recloned the entire drive (USB 1.0 so it took about 3 hours). I still get this same result when I try to boot which just seems to loop endlessly.
Screenshot

EDIT
Renaming this thread "Boot problem after cloning to SSD" since it may not be TPM related after all (though that did seem to be the problem on the first attempt).

 

[jojesa]

On that screen it appears to trying to perform a network boot.
It's not trying to boot from the SSD, it could be that the cloning process did not work properly.
Could you check that the boot order is correct.

 

[AllanGH]

You may want to get Macrium Reflect out of the way.

Assuming that you're going from a source drive that has a capacity that is equal to, or smaller than, your target drive....

Best strategy would be to disable TPM completely, then use an offline disk duplicator / cloner. This will require removing the drive from the laptop but, if you're cloning the drive to replace it, you'll be doing that, eventually, anyway. The upside is that you will wind-up with the original MBR instead of the GPT partition type, and this sounds like this is the root of the problem that you're running into.

(An Inatek or Sabrent disk cloner costs less than the cheapest licensing cost of Macrium, and is OS agnostic.)

A second-best strategy would be to use Clonezilla to do a full disk to disk clone. A bit more involved, but will generally work in most cases. The upside is that Clonezilla is free to download and use.

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