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The general question is that in former times I used testdisk to repair a partition but after that the PC does not start. I have also Acronis and Partition Magic for XP.
Why do I get different results from different tools ? They must get the same faults and not different results of partition table !

After clone of Win 7 double boot system I get start problems of the first system. When starting some partitions are lacking because the system does not find volume.inf in its own file repository.
So I let it seek on the other system and it finds the driver there. Then all partitions are complete.
But after restart I get a BSOD with 0x0000007b, means missing start partition.

So I start with last known good configuration then volume.inf not found, then looking other system, installation but the BSOD again after restart.
Loop of that !

So the partition table in the old system /HDD is not quite ok, but it works.

After clone it gets worse and the system does not work as described above.

I attach 2 screenshots of testdisk of the old HDD (first) and the new one after clone (second).

Would appreciate some useful remarks !

The software you have used to clone the disk has not done a sector by sector copy: the partition size are different.
If you want to do a sector by sector copy, use gnu ddrescue.
Here is an old tutorial: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk

Thanks for your answer. One friend told me to try with dd from Linux.

But I tried several clones with Acronis TI also sector by sector ! And also HDD Raw Copy Tool works with sector by sector.

The results were the same ! Why that ??

Beside that why does an image without sector by sector makes such problems ??

Is it possible to repair a / this HDD / the partition table by testdisk ??????

In the past testdisk under XP has different results about partition table than windows, or other tools as Partiton Magic etc pp

Also I encountered total loss of windows using a testdisk repair of partition table !

Some mulitbootsystem work fine but TD says there is a problem. But the system works without problems !

The same with Partition Magic.

So also the system above works with some problems,

but TD says there are bigger problems, so I ask with what relevance ???