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After installing bootcamp I had to upgrade my windows partition, it worked until I upgraded to Yosemite.
After upgrading and rebooting and clicking alt the windows option didn't even appear.
I tried a couple of tips in the communitie threads and managed to get windows to appear as an option on reboot however I get the message
"missing operating system".
Following Loner T's suggestions I get these results:
diskutil list
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   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
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *209.6 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 ADB5ED30-596D-4CBF-95B6-3147DF954E96
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
diskutil cs list
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group B8C99B8C-D7C4-4E0E-8AD3-BA68035C6584
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 0D9669BA-EE47-4F1C-A256-BFD369F8694E
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     209999998976 B (210.0 GB)
    |
    +-> 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
        |
        +-> Logical Volume ADB5ED30-596D-4CBF-95B6-3147DF954E96
            Disk:                  disk1
            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
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
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
      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 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
sudo fdisk /dev/disk
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 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: 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
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -
MacBook-Pro:~ Ran$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 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: 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|
00000180 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 | loading operati|
00000190 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69 6e |ng system.Missin|
000001a0 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 20 73 79 73 74 |g operating syst|
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.|
00000200
Thanks.

1. I started off with 30 gb and then added around 10 so it's probably choice number 2
2. I did that for the first one, and I got this:
When you say familiar files you mean real files on my windows partition?
3. I pressed q to go back and search the other MS data entry but it got me here:
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