Added third partition and cant boot into Windows.

So I had windows 8.1 bootcamped, and being the idiot i am, created a third partition, messing up my bootcamp. I am unable to boot into Windows now. I suspect my mbr and gpt are out of sync, but do not know how to fix this. By the way, both disk utility and finder show that the bootcamp partition is there, but there is not option to boot into it on the boot selection menu thingy.

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