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Unreachable WiFi with MacOS Sierra

Hi,

I have installed a new SSD cloned drive and am running MacOS Sierra

Which works fine but yesterday it will not connect to WiFi. Everything is normal except it says unreachable when I try to connect.

I have booted from my original HDD and everything is working fine. Why won't my cloned SSD connect?

Thanks for your help.

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You're hitting one of the issues when you clone from a different system as the device driver your new system needs is missing.

Because of all of the issues cloning causes I don't use them any more. I manage over 200 systems and all I use is Apples TimeMachine & Migration Assistant tool when I need to move someones stuff to a new system or drive.

I would first make a good backup of your stuff using TimeMachine onto an external drive. Once done, create a USB thumb drive OS installer following this guide: How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive. Then, boot up under it so you can delete the current partition on your systems SSD. Using the Installer install the OS it will create both the hidden recovery partition and the main partition you'll use (FYI:cloning won't create this partition). At the end of the install process you'll be asked if you want to migrate from a second system, TimeMachine backup or a second drive. At this point connect your TimeMachine backup drive and let it run. It will create your original user accounts and carry over your Apps & data files. You can even fine tune what not to copy over.

That should do it.

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sorry i wasn't too clear. i cloned my own hdd to ssd , i am now using the original hdd which connects fine to the internet. the new ssd worked fine for a couple weeks then when i turned on yesterday in the wifi drop down it says internet unreachable.

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The act of cloning creates problems! While you might have done your own HD to SSD here. The file structures between HD's and SSD's are not the same. So you can create issues. As I pointed out cloning won't create the recovery partition, only installing a clean OS via the installer will.

There are just too many possibilities of problems here. Clearly something got messed up and maybe it took a few hours for it to pop.

You could try resetting the SMC & NVRAM to see if that helps. I still would redo the drive though.

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thanks dan i fixed it. i had to renew dhcp lease

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