Boot camp is no longer bootable

I am currently on a 13" Mac Book Pro 10.9.5
This morning, I went to boot up my Mac HD and is would not. I checked to see if my Windows 7 partition would boot up and it did.
I then used Disc Utility to try and repair my Mac HD, but found that it was unmounted and could not be remounted. I was prompted to repair the disc. This disc was non-repairable so instead I repaired the overlying Toshiba 500GB HD that both the Mac and Bootcamp partitions are in.
After doing this, my Mac HD became mounted, so I tried to boot up. What I found was that Bootcamp was no longer a selectable startup and that my Mac HD was still having issues. I was still able to select bootcamp from the Disc Utility screen, but when I selected it, I received the "no bootable device" screen. I went back to Disc Utility and while nothing changed with bootcamp, my Mac HD was unmounted again. My friend came over with his fire-wire and we ran DiskWarrior, which completely fixed the issues with my Mac HD. Bootcamp still does not show in startup and when I choose it from Disc Utility I get the same "no bootable device" message.
My Bootcamp was working even when my Mac HD wasn't, but then developed this issue immediately after I repaired the overlying Toshiba HD.
How can I get boot camp to run again?

Can you post the output of the following Terminal commands?
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
The sudo commands require your password, which is not echoed back to you. It may also warn you about improper use of sudo and potential data loss, if abused.

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