Cloned boot camp partition won't boot

I've bought a new SSD, installed OSX and used Disk Utility to make 2 partitions. 1 for OSX and another fat32 partition for win XP.
I cloned my old windows xp boot camp partition with dd.
then I followed the instructions to add a new hybrid master boot record and marked the partition bootable (sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0, flag 4).
But the Boot camp partition doesn't show up during boot while pressing ALT and vmware is not able to boot into windows.
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 62260/255/63 [1000215216 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 -  967742600] HFS+       
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 968152240 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] HPFS/QNX/AUX  (it's FAT32 not NTFS!, however this changed after sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0 flag 4)
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: 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   967742600      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   968152240     1269544      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   969421784    30531248      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151        
  1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
  1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
I can't use winclone, cause they cancelled the fat32 support and older versions don't run unter osx 10.9.
Thanks for your help.

What is a startup repair?
Could please look over that.
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *512.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            492.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data WINDOWS HD              15.6 GB    disk0s4
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=512110190592; sectorsize=512; blocks=1000215216
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 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   960937496      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   961347136     1269544      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   962616680     6805104        
   969421784    30531248      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   999953032      262151        
  1000215183          32         Sec GPT table
  1000215215           1         Sec GPT header
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ 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 -  960937496] HFS+       
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 961347136 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
*4: 0C 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 969421784 -   30531248] Win95 FAT32L
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/rBootcampDisk count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
dietmar-mac:~ dietmar$ 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|
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