Boot Camp is no longer bootable after tech tool pro.

Really need som guidance today!
A few days ago i created an eDrive with techtool pro, honestly I don't know why I even did this my computer was running fine...curiousity I guess. I booted in to the eDrive and ran a volume optimization on my mac os 10.8.3 partition. This went on for 12 hours until about 96%, at which point it stopped and did not complete the process.
When I tried to boot into Mac Os, the option appeared in the Alt/Option startup selection but when only a gray screen and then a crossed circle and nothing else. I solved this only by restoring my Mac Os partition with a Time Machine backup from over a month ago.
Now, my boot camp partiotin is no longer available in the Alt/Option start up screen, and when I manually choose it in the Mac Os startup disk utility it loads to a black screen which read "no bootable volume, please insert startup disk and press any key". Disk utility recognizes the volume which is strange.
I never had a DVD, and i installed windows using a USB iso image, which i of course lost. Now i am trying to create a USB in bootcamp assistant, but none of them are booting.
What is going on?
PLEASE HELP!!!!

You have a recovery partition for repairing and reinstalling OSX (unless TT borked that as well). Reboot, press command and R at the sound of the chime.
Use Disk Utility to repair (do not try to repair the Boot Camp partition) or choose Reinstall OSX

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