Can't mount bootcamp partition in 10.9.5

Hi, I'm only able to boot into my bootcamp partition by restarting the computer and holding down alt/option. When I'm in OSX, I'm only able to see the partition in Disk Utility, and it's greyed out there. I just installed Windows 8, updated to windows 8.1, and then installed a mavericks update. I guess somewhere along the line the bootcamp partition got disconnected from mavericks?
I did some googling and I think I need to do something in gdisk to fix it, but I'm not sure how that works. Here's my output from
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 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 -  967470968] HFS+      
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 967880608 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 969150464 -  983451648] HPFS/QNX/AUX
and from sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/rdisk0': Undefined error: 0
Any help would be appreciated! I already installed gdisk successfully, just have no idea how to use it.

Yeah, and actually I tried using gdisk because I hadn't gotten any replies, I really messed up what I had and now I can't boot into windows ^^;
Here's a new version of those previous two. Somehow BOOTCAMP turned into XENIX, I have no idea how or what that means (nothing good probably)
sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127  14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF   25 127  15 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  967470968] HFS+   
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 967880608 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 03 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 969150464 -  984373248] XENIX /usr
sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/rdisk0
gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
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 1953525167
       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   967470968      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   967880608     1269544      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   969150152         312    
   969150464   984373248      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1953523712        1423    
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
And here's some other stuff that might be helpful
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            495.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                504.0 GB   disk0s4
sudo gpt -r show -l /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6        
          40      409600      1  GPT part - "EFI System Partition"
      409640   967470968      2  GPT part - "Untitled"
   967880608     1269544      3  GPT part - "Recovery HD"
   969150152         312        
   969150464   984373248      4  GPT part - "BOOTCAMP"
  1953523712        1423        
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

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