Macos not starting anymore after Time Capsule restore

Hello, I changed the hard drive of my mac book. Then I restored the system from my time capsule.
When I start my macbook it boots but the process seems to stop after a while.
I made a permissions repair but it didnot help.
Tried to boot in safe mode but did not help.
What can I do?
Thanks in advance.

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