Bootcamp Windows 7 Disappeared after partition resize

Hello guys,
I have a Mid 2013 Macbook Pro 15 and just recently I installed windows 7 using Bootcamp. After a few days I decided to resize my Windows partition.
So, I used Disk Utility to shrink my OSX partition. Then I restarted my laptop in Windows 7 and used a third-party software to add the available space that I just created to my Windows partition. After finishing the operation and restarting my computer in Windows everything was fine. (The disk has been resized and no files were missing whatsoever). Few hours later I wanted to use my OSX, so I restarted my laptop in OSX again and BOOM. Bootcamp disappeared. When I was opening "Startup Disk" nothing was there, like it has been completely removed.
I've done a little research but I couldn't get any results with terminal commands and stuff like that.
So what I did is this,
I restarted my computed holding the options "alt" key and got into the Startup Manager.
There were 3 Drives
1. Macintosh HD
2. Recovery 10.8
3. Windows
I clicked windows and successfully managed to get into my Windows 7. No files were missing everything was working perfectly.
After restarting to OSX again still everything was missing!
So the problem seems to be that Windows are still there and working properly but BOOTCAMP and Windows have disappeared and going in Startup Manager is the only way to access them.
I hope I helped someone with the same problem.
Any ideas or solutions are welcome.

Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s1 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 eb 58 90 42 53 44 20 20 34 2e 34 00 02 01 20 00 |.X.BSD 4.4... .|
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 20 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 |........ .......|
00000020 00 40 06 00 4f 0c 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |[email protected]...........|
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 29 ed 17 e3 67 45 46 49 20 20 20 20 20 20 |..)...gEFI |
00000050 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 fa 31 c0 8e d0 bc | FAT32 .1....|
00000060 00 7c fb 8e d8 e8 00 00 5e 83 c6 19 bb 07 00 fc |.|......^.......|
00000070 ac 84 c0 74 06 b4 0e cd 10 eb f5 30 e4 cd 16 cd |...t.......0....|
00000080 19 0d 0a 4e 6f 6e 2d 73 79 73 74 65 6d 20 64 69 |...Non-system di|
00000090 73 6b 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 |sk..Press any ke|
000000a0 79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 62 6f 6f 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 |y to reboot.....|
000000b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s2 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
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s3 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
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
Jeffs-MacBook-Pro:~ Jamado$

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