How to restore partition layout of my 1TB Fusion Drive?

Hi there,
I purchased a Late 2013 iMac 27" with a 1 TB Fusion Drive. I tried to install Windows 8.1 without Bootcamp. My Installation with Bootcamp didn't work - there was an error stating that Windows Installation was not able to prepare for the next step of the installation - so I partitioned manually via OS X Disk Utility (resizing the Macintosh HD) and tried to install to the unused disk space - okay my mistake. This somehow didn't work either. Now I have the following situation: The Disk Utility shows the following partition layout:
Macintosh HD 779,53 GB
Unused disk space 220,33 GB
I am not able to resize the Macintosh HD to use the unused disk space (original partition layout). There is no option for this. The partition layout option is greyed out. When I try to create a second partition of the unused space and proceed, nothing happens (protocol states preparing to partition: „APPLE HDD ST1000DM003 Media“ - nothing more). The operation will not finish. Next to the partition scheme is the following information (translated from german): "For a new partition layout the whole capacity of the Fusion Drive won't be available." The whole Macintosh HD now has a capacity of 900,52GB (Disk Utility).
What can I do to restore to the original partition layout of my Fusion Drive which had a capacity of about 1,1TB?
Thank you for your help!
Chris

Yes, I think my first attempt was also in EFI mode, this could have resulted in the second EFI part.
Here are the requested outputs:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         779.5 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk1s4
   5:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk1s5
   6: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               314.6 MB   disk1s6
   7:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk1s7
   8:       Microsoft Basic Data                         219.0 GB   disk1s8
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *894.3 GB   disk2
diskutil list disk0
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6        
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  236306352      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  236715992     262144      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  236978136          7        
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         PMBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6        
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640  1522514312      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1522923952     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1524193488        1840        
  1524195328      262144      4  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
  1524457472      352256        
  1524809728      204800      5  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1525014528      614400      6  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
  1525628928      204800      7  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1525833728   427689984      8  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  1953523712        1423        
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
Thanks for your help!

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