No Booting of Windows 8.1 After GPT Partition Resizing with Easeus Partition Master 3.0

Hi there,
I have a Sony Notebook SVS13A3Z9ES with preinstalled Windows 8 which I updated to Windows 8.1. The notebook has a
250GB SSD which had the following GPT partitions
Partition 1: SONYSYS - 260MB (Sony Vaio tools, type OEM)
Partition 2: Windows RE - 1,4 GB (Type OEM)
Partition 3: EFI System Partition - 260 MB (type System)
Partition 4: MSR 128 MB  (type reserved)
Partition 5: About 240 GB - (incl. Windows, Type Prime)
Partition 6: Windows Recovery 350 MB (type OEM)
Partition 7: Recovery: 28 GB - OEM -> I created instead a Recovery USB stick and have now another prime partition
I then shrinked the Windows partition to 101GB with the Easeus Partition Master 3.0 to create another partition dedicated for data only. I didn't use the Windows built-in partition tool because I still wanted to shift the part.6,
being able to only extend part.7 for the final data partition. After I activated the shrinking via the Easeus I had to restart the notebook. I immediately came obviously to the Windows RE environment :
- asking me for selecting language
- afterwards I was brought to the Option Menue
* Continue Booting -> led me back to the language selection
* Turn-of PC and
* Trouble Shooting -> 
Proceeding with Troubleshooting
* Recovery and Maintenance -> tried to start VAIO Care but couldn't access it -> back to Option Menu
* Refresh PC -> led to the message
“The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again.” 
It seems that the C: drive was locked after shrinkingthe partition with Easeus. 
* Advanced Options -> 
Proceeding with Advanced Options:
* Automatic Repair -> couldn't be executed, log file on C:. With cmd the C:\>  drive can be initialized but Windows folder is not found (probably locked or hidden) 
* Recovery Point Recovery -> no recovery points were detected -> back to Troubleshooting
* System Image Recovery -> no image points were detected -> back to Troubleshooting
* UEFI Firmware Settings -> led to the Vaio Care RescueMode screen which can be seen here
http://community.sony.com/t5/VAIO-Upgrade-Backup-Recovery/How-can-I-enter-bios-on-my-vaio-I-want-to-boot-from-the-cd-drive/td-p/60063 
e.g. starting Windows from there led to WinRE again
* cmd window ->
Finally we have the cmd Window. Here are several postings in the internet with potential solutions but no one helped me so far. Example postings:
http://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-can-i-repair-the-windows-8-efi-bootloader
http://www.qliktips.com/2012/11/fix-windows-8-boot-issue.html
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-windows.htm
http://www.winhelp.us/repair-your-computer-in-windows-8.html
I tried so far:
- chkdsk -> executed, no problems
- Bootrec /fixmbr -> executed
- Bootrec /fixboot -> executed
- Bootrec /rebuildbcd, result:
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 0
The operation completed successfully.
Restart brought me directly to language selection and Windows RE back again. 
BCDBoot c:\Windows -> executed successfully but restart
back to WinRE
Then I assigned a letter to the EFI partition using diskpart v6.2.9200 and replaced bcd file with
1. method: BCDBoot c:\Windows /s z: /f ALL   (z: letter of EFI partition) ->
executed successfully but restart back to WinRE
2. method: Bootrec /rebuildbcd -> executed successfully but restart back to WinRE
I had the recovery USB stick inserted but it was never used so far. 
Do you still have other solution ideas restore the booting or an approach how to unlock the GPT c: drive with Windows again ? I would appreciate that very much.

Hi,
According to your description,the system was damaged by the partition tool.
Since you upgraded to Windows 8.1,you cannot use Windows 8 recovery media to repair the system.
If you have some important data in the SSD,I suggest that you move the ssd to other computer,and backup the data.
As you said,you had the recovery USB stick inserted but it was never used so far.
For this issue,please change your BOIS setting for USB.
I suggest you use your recovery USB stick to reinstall your system.
Regards,
Kelvin Xu
TechNet Community Support

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    00000000  eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20  20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00  |.R.NTFS    .....|
    00000010  00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00  3f 00 ff 00 00 b0 0e 2b  |........?......+|
    00000020  00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00  ff bf 2e 0f 00 00 00 00  |................|
    00000030  00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00  02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
    00000040  f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  05 92 d3 74 c4 d3 74 aa  |...........t..t.|
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    00000060  1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16  0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e  |..hf......f.>..N|
    00000070  54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb  aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb  |TFSu..A..U..r...|
    00000080  55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00  75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec  |U.u.....u.......|
    00000090  18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16  0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13  |.h...H..........|
    000000a0  9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72  e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3  |.....X.r.;...u..|
    000000b0  0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e  5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8  |........Z3... +.|
    000000c0  66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f  00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8  |f...............|
    000000d0  4b 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00  bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d  |K.+.w......f#.u-|
    000000e0  66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75  24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16  |f..TCPAu$....r..|
    000000f0  68 07 bb 16 68 52 11 16  68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66  |h...hR..h..fSfSf|
    00000100  55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66  61 0e 07 cd 1a 33 c0 bf  |U...h..fa....3..|
    00000110  0a 13 b9 f6 0c fc f3 aa  e9 fe 01 90 90 66 60 1e  |.............f`.|
    00000120  06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06  1c 00 1e 66 68 00 00 00  |.f...f.....fh...|
    00000130  00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00  68 10 00 b4 42 8a 16 0e  |.fP.Sh..h...B...|
    00000140  00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66  59 5b 5a 66 59 66 59 1f  |.......fY[ZfYfY.|
    00000150  0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11  00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff  |....f...........|
    00000160  0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66  61 c3 a1 f6 01 e8 09 00  |...u...fa.......|
    00000170  a1 fa 01 e8 03 00 f4 eb  fd 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09  |............<.t.|
    00000180  b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb  f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64 69  |............A di|
    00000190  73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 20  65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f 63  |sk read error oc|
    000001a0  63 75 72 72 65 64 00 0d  0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52  |curred...BOOTMGR|
    000001b0  20 69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70  72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d  | is compressed..|
    000001c0  0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 43  74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b  |.Press Ctrl+Alt+|
    000001d0  44 65 6c 20 74 6f 20 72  65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a  |Del to restart..|
    000001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
    000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 8a 01  a7 01 bf 01 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|
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