Bootcamp partition exists, but won't start

I needed a Win exclusive program, and when I went to fire Win7 up by pressing "alt/option" during startup, Bootcamp was missing. When OS X starts, the Partition is on my desktop. I also tried using BootChamp to force into Win7, but when the computer tries to start it, I get a black screen with "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
Bootcamp appears in Disk Utility, and the Startup Disk Pane in System Preferences, but can't get it to load Windows with the same "No bootable device" message.
Any ideas?

mixtronic wrote:
I own and installed the copy of Windows 7 previously, and have booted into Windows many times prior to this problem.
Well it seems that is not what is happening now. Somehow your Win7 install got corrupted or damaged or removed.
The only thing you can do is reinstall Win 7.
Or you could try a Repair install by booting to the Win 7 install DVD and Run Startup Repair (I've heard you have to run it 3 times but not sure as I've never had to do it myself).

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/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         210.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         30.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *209.6 GB   disk1
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                                 ADB5ED30-596D-4CBF-95B6-3147DF954E96
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diskutil cs list
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group B8C99B8C-D7C4-4E0E-8AD3-BA68035C6584
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    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
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    +-< Physical Volume 0D9669BA-EE47-4F1C-A256-BFD369F8694E
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    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
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    +-> Logical Volume Family BF2FC390-7959-4AD8-A73C-6A2D1ACFD56B
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
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            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          209648091136 B (209.6 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (unlock and decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
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gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
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          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 410156248      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
410565888    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
411835424   19807200
431642624   58591232      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
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MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
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#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 410156248] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 410565888 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 431642624 -   58591232] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 410156248] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 410565888 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 431642624 -   58591232] HPFS/QNX/AUX
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c 8e c0 8e d8 be 00 7c bf 00 |3.....|......|..|
00000010 06 b9 00 02 fc f3 a4 50 68 1c 06 cb fb b9 04 00 |.......Ph.......|
00000020 bd be 07 80 7e 00 00 7c 0b 0f 85 0e 01 83 c5 10 |....~..|........|
00000030 e2 f1 cd 18 88 56 00 55 c6 46 11 05 c6 46 10 00 |.....V.U.F...F..|
00000040 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 5d 72 0f 81 fb 55 aa 75 09 |.A..U..]r...U.u.|
00000050 f7 c1 01 00 74 03 fe 46 10 66 60 80 7e 10 00 74 |....t..F.f`.~..t|
00000060 26 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 ff 76 08 68 00 00 68 00 |&fh....f.v.h..h.|
00000070 7c 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 56 00 8b f4 cd 13 ||h..h...B.V.....|
00000080 9f 83 c4 10 9e eb 14 b8 01 02 bb 00 7c 8a 56 00 |............|.V.|
00000090 8a 76 01 8a 4e 02 8a 6e 03 cd 13 66 61 73 1c fe |.v..N..n...fas..|
000000a0 4e 11 75 0c 80 7e 00 80 0f 84 8a 00 b2 80 eb 84 |N.u..~..........|
000000b0 55 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 5d eb 9e 81 3e fe 7d 55 |U2..V...]...>.}U|
000000c0 aa 75 6e ff 76 00 e8 8d 00 75 17 fa b0 d1 e6 64 |.un.v....u.....d|
000000d0 e8 83 00 b0 df e6 60 e8 7c 00 b0 ff e6 64 e8 75 |......`.|....d.u|
000000e0 00 fb b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 3b 66 81 fb 54 |.......f#.u;f..T|
000000f0 43 50 41 75 32 81 f9 02 01 72 2c 66 68 07 bb 00 |CPAu2....r,fh...|
00000100 00 66 68 00 02 00 00 66 68 08 00 00 00 66 53 66 |.fh....fh....fSf|
00000110 53 66 55 66 68 00 00 00 00 66 68 00 7c 00 00 66 |SfUfh....fh.|..f|
00000120 61 68 00 00 07 cd 1a 5a 32 f6 ea 00 7c 00 00 cd |ah.....Z2...|...|
00000130 18 a0 b7 07 eb 08 a0 b6 07 eb 03 a0 b5 07 32 e4 |..............2.|
00000140 05 00 07 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 bb 07 00 b4 0e cd |......<.t.......|
00000150 10 eb f2 f4 eb fd 2b c9 e4 64 eb 00 24 02 e0 f8 |......+..d..$...|
00000160 24 02 c3 49 6e 76 61 6c 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 |$..Invalid parti|
00000170 74 69 6f 6e 20 74 61 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f 72 |tion table.Error|
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000001b0 65 6d 00 00 00 63 7b 9a 4e 8b 2f 59 00 00 00 fe |em...c{.N./Y....|
000001c0 ff ff ee fe ff ff 01 00 00 00 27 40 06 00 00 fe |..........'@....|
000001d0 ff ff ac fe ff ff 28 40 06 00 d8 7c 72 18 00 fe |......(@...|r...|
000001e0 ff ff ab fe ff ff 00 bd 78 18 20 5f 13 00 80 fe |........x. _....|
000001f0 ff ff 07 fe ff ff 00 58 ba 19 00 08 7e 03 55 aa |.......X....~.U.|
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