After HD change, Windows partition no longer boots up

Recently, I replaced my internal Hard drive on an early 2008 Macbook with a Solid State Drive. The original Hard drive had both an OS X partition and boot camp partition. I am currently using this drive as a external storage device (I did not delete anything, both partitions are still there with their respective operating systems) via a USB hard drive enclosure. Occasionally, I need to boot into Windows, but when I try to boot off the external drive, I get a black screen with a small blinking white line, and eventually, the error message that there is no bootable media. Please help!

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windows is weird in that it notes somewhere the block numbers where the system is installed, and when that moves
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http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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Hello people smarter than me. I seek knowledge and skills I do not posses. I replaced my SSD with a bigger one going from 240gb to 960gb. The old one had two bootcamp OS partitions (Mac, Windows) and four partitions (EFI System Partition, Recovery HD make up the remaining two) I added a third (5th) partition that I labeled scratch (ExFat) that I intend to be a bulk storage for assets. Currently it will boot MacOS but not Windows 7.
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240gb [Bootable, Mac OS Extended (Journaled), MacOS X, MacLandia-new]
240gb [Bootable, NTFS, Windows 7, Winlandia-N]
480gb [ExFAT, Scratch]
Output from "sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0"
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=960197124096; sectorsize=512; blocks=1875385008
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
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Output from "sudo fdisk /dev/disk0"
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 116737/255/63 [1875385008 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 487274680] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 487684320 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 488953856 - 509388800] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Disk /dev/disk0: 1875385008 sectors, 894.3 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 151BF613-9829-4D05-87C8-1C064CF8AB85
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1875384974
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 342059669 sectors (163.1 GiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       487684319   232.4 GiB   AF00 MacLandia-new
   3       487684320       488953855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       488953856       635437055   69.8 GiB    0700 Winlandia-N
   5       977496064      1875384319   428.1 GiB   0700 scratch
Output from "diskutil list"
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Maclandia               249.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Winders-New             75.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data scratch                 459.7 GB   disk0s5
Output from "sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s3 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C"
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
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What might be the best way to continue to repair it. I do not have the option to click on "verify disk permissions" or "Repair Disk Permissions".
Should I clone the hard drive in the target disk mode??
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
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Slot 1 - original apple 250gb disk was copied over to Slot 3
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Slot 4 - unchanged, Windows 7 64bit Ultimate installed now not booting
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