Bootcamp partition fully bootable within VMWare, but not showing up in startup with option key - nor does it work when selecting target startup disk

Hey all,
Today I resized my OSX partition with the intention of leaving it blank for my new SSD to use as over provisioning space. This resulted in me having 5 partitions on the drive for a short while (which may have caused the issue?). Hereafter, the Windows 8 partition was stopped showing up when pressing option on startup. I opened my bootcamp partition in VMWare Fusion and could was told the drive was unbootable. I used the Windows 8 cd in through VMWare Fusion to run the Auto Repair from the installation CD (probably MBR records and BCD records etc). Then VMWare was able to fully boot my Windows 8 installation without any problem. However, I am still not able to actually boot into my Windows 8 installation as it doesn't show up at startup, and when chosen as target start disk within OSX the computer just hangs on startup before it reboots.
I am considering the possibility of some mis-sync between the GPT tables OSX is using and the MBR records used by Windows 8... I have run a few commands and gotten the following response:
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0:
Disk: /dev/disk0
geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 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 - 725443856] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725853496 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 840058920 - 159894112] Win95 FAT32L
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 1000215215
       start        size index contents
           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   725443856      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   725853496     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   727123032   112935888
   840058920   159894112      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151
1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can confirm that partition 4 is indeed my windows 8 installation.
When I run the validation test within gdisk i get:
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
MBR: hybrid
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.
No problems found. 113198045 free sectors (54.0 GiB) available in 3
segments, the largest of which is 112935888 (53.9 GiB) in size.
I am have hit a wall in regards to this issue. Why can I boot from my bootcamp partition using VMWare, but not directly from it like when I restart my computer?

Okay solution found found a solution finally... i followed the steps outlined in this article: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4144252?start=0&tstart=0 . After i did this my windows bootcamp partition showed up again, but my osx and osx recovery disks became unbootable. Luckily I have an extra enternal harddrive with osx installed on, so ran disk utility and repaired the affected disk where osx had become unavailable. Then rebooted and all disks now shows up and work perfectly again.

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