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My only thoughts are that the damaged drive, even though it says it was repaired, some of the data was damaged in the process and/or there is corrupted files on the drive. Therefore the clone nor the imaging can read it in order to copy it.
That's my opinion. Am I correct that you have no problems with Windows 7 but are having issues with XP? Please refresh my memory. As I recall, you are doing music editing and need XP. For that reason, you need the XP OS. You have pretty much ruled out a VM or upgrading you windows to run XP Mode. Windows 7 'should' be capable of running an X86 program. If you will look in your Windows 7 main drive you will see Program Files and Program Files X86. Program files is for X64 programs and Program Files X86 is for X86 Programs. The real question is is the program you use Windows 7 compatible? I suspect not, but you could check. I further believe that at least part of your problem is that your sata controller is in Raid mode. If your Windows 7 has iaStor (Intel Rapid Storage controller) installed, it would boot if you changed the BIOS to AHCI mode. I have no earthly idea what XP would do.
I also may be wrong, but I think you have been slightly confused, to a degree. When you run sfc /scannow, if you run it from the Windows 7 OS, it is only checking the Windows 7 OS. It does not even look at the XP drive. Whatever you do in Windows 7 has nothing to do with Windows 7, conversely, whatever you do in the XP OS has nothing to do with Windows 7. The only caveat to that is the imaging and cloning. You can for instance clone any drive on your computer from Windows 7, if it happens to be XP, that makes no difference just so long as it can read what is on the XP drive. It appears that it cannot, which leads me to believe that the XP drive is damaged beyond repair.