BootCamp Partition- Missing Operating System Windows Startup Repair

Hi.
I made the mistake of creating a new partition on my HD with an existing Boot Camp partition. I tried to follow the advice of Loner T in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6574886, and got made the Windows installation bootable. Upon starting up Windows the screen displayed 'Missing Operating System', I tried doing a Windows Startup Repair using the Windows Installation Media without any luck.
Here is the current state of my hard drive.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            201.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:               Windows_NTFS                         20.0 GB    disk0s4
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
1: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] HFS+       
2: AF   25 127  15 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  393139416] HFS+       
*3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 393549056 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 461056000 -   39061504] HPFS/QNX/AUX
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=256060514304; sectorsize=512; blocks=500118192
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Undefined error: 0
sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000  80 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  |.. . . . . . . .|
00000010  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  | . . . . . . . .|
00000140  04 00 00 00 02 01 00 0c  00 00 78 2e 50 15 00 00  |..........x.P...|
00000150  00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.. .............|
00000160  00 00 00 00 00 00 8a 00  78 2e 50 15 00 03 00 00  |........x.P.....|
00000170  01 00 03 00 35 35 09 00  00 00 3e 00 8c 09 00 00  |....55....>.....|
00000180  76 01 00 00 15 00 02 00  91 77 1c 00 00 00 02 01  |v........w......|
00000190  c9 b5 04 00 01 00 02 00  2c 00 00 00 8c 09 00 00  |........,.......|
000001a0  76 01 00 00 15 00 00 01  00 00 1e 00 00 00 00 01  |v...............|
000001b0  00 00 00 00 41 00 03 00  fb 03 00 00 0c 00 20 00  |....A......... .|
000001c0  10 00 f8 03 35 35 09 00  01 d2 46 00 00 c3 29 0b  |....55....F...).|
000001d0  23 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  |#. . . . . . . .|
000001e0  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00  | . . . . . . . .|
00000200

Please download GPT Fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) and Testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step).
1. Your GPT is corrupt.
2. The MBR is incorrect.
3. You do not have a valid NTFS header.
You need to run Testdisk first to find the correct NTFS header. Please see http://imgur.com/a/PjmnK for the Testdisk screens.

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