Invalid BS_jmpBoot

I installed Windows 7 64bit on my iMac running the latest Snow Leopard release.
Everything worked find... I set up Windows how I wanted it but when it was time again to switch back to Snow Leopard I find that my iMac no longer recognized it.
I launched disk utility via the Snow Leopard install DVD and I could not mount my Mac partition... this was the error when trying to repair it:
invalid BS_jmpBoot
I don't know what to do. Through Windows I can still read the partition but the Mac can't boot from it.
Anyone have any explanation for this?
I've had Windows 7 installed via Bootcamp before and never experienced this problem.

I fixed the problem myself by using TestDisk on the SystemRescueCD.
Simply followed the instructions on how to use TestDisk on the TestDisk website and it was fixed in a couple of minutes.
What caused this problem is the Windows Disk Management utility. I didn't want my Mac partition to show up under Windows so I removed its drive letter to basically hide it from view. Unfortunately this messed it up so it could no longer be booted.
I've seen that some people have a similar error not necessarily due to what I did but perhaps my solution will work for those others as well.

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    Hi I'm riiiic a new mac user
    After a year of discussion, my brother conviced me to but a MacBook Pro 13" and here I am
    The notebook (hardaware) is beautiful, superb, marvellous but the software part makes me unhappy.
    Hundred of people told me, forgot any error message using a mac, and here we are:
    This is an errore message from disk utility:
    Verifying volume “disk0s3”
    ** /dev/disk0s3
    Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 616e67
    Errore: this disk must be repaired
    Verify e repair volume “disk0s3”
    ** /dev/disk0s3
    Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: 616e67
    Disk utility is unable to repair the disk....
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    I'll now describe my movements:
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    - 2. installation of WIN7 64bit
    - 3. unable to detect the win partition on finder.
    - 4. boot with pressed alt and selected to boot from windows, anything was great, windows work perfectly (with boot camp drivers) and I'm able to detect and read files from macHD.
    - 5. trayed to find a solution and installed MACfuse e NTFS-3G (it didn't work)
    - 6. opened disk utility and found that "disk0s3" was unmounted and un reperable, the same disk from who I can perfectly boot win7.
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    hi all
    i'm on mac pro, quad core, leopard 10.5.2.
    basically for some reason my hard drive was working fine, then one day last week i turned my mac back on and the hard drive will not initialize anymore.
    i've gone into disk utility to try and repair disk. but it's listed there, not the name i gave it but 'disk1s1'.
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    orangekay wrote:
    SMART is largely snake oil in implementation and practice and it's entirely commonplace for a dead drive to report itself functional and vice versa. I've seen Seagates whose heads were audibly grinding against the platters claim they were functioning normally, and I've seen others that said they were failing go on to provide years of reliable service. SMART status is a ballpark guess at best.
    yes I understand that but I wouldn't trust a drive with a non-verified SMART status. as you say, it might continue to function but chances are pretty high that it will soon fail altogether. that's already happened to the OP who should consider himself lucky he can get anything off the drive at all with Data rescue. professional data recovery is of course also an option but a very expensive one. at least when I tried to use a service like this once about 5 years ago they wanted to charge me a small fortune. not sure what that would cost these days...

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    2012-03-20 22:18:41 +1100: Starting verification tool:
    2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Checking file system2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: ** /dev/disk0s4
    2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: ba9a97
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    2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Disk Utility stopped verifying “disk0s4”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
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    2012-03-20 22:31:06 +1100: Starting repair tool:
    2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Checking file system2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: ** /dev/disk0s4
    2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: ba9a97
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    2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100:
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    Logical sector size: 512 bytes
    Disk identifier (GUID): FB4FA8FD-D192-4589-93E1-A19A9F0F29D7
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    Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
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       1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
       2          409640       869550263   414.4 GiB   AF00  Customer
       3       869550264       870727719   574.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
       4       870727720       976773127   50.6 GiB    0700  Untitled
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    Partition GUID code: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (Microsoft basic data)
    Partition unique GUID: 94C06328-9817-4012-9C30-C97592E671C1
    First sector: 870727720 (at 415.2 GiB)
    Last sector: 976773127 (at 465.8 GiB)
    Partition size: 106045408 sectors (50.6 GiB)
    Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
    Partition name: 'Untitled'
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    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
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    2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  869140624] HFS+       
    3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 869550264 -    1177456] Darwin Boot
    *4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 870727720 -  106045408] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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    07
    flag 4
    p
    w
    y
    q
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    fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
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      disk Edit current drive stats
      edit Edit given table entry
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      update Update machine code in loaded MBR
      select Select extended partition table entry MBR
      print Print loaded MBR partition table
      write Write loaded MBR to disk
      exit Exit edit of current MBR, without saving changes
      quit Quit edit of current MBR, saving current changes
      abort Abort program without saving current changes
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    I have a SEAGATE external hard drive which I had associated with Time machine so its file system was HFS+ journaled.
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    Signature: 0xAA55
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              1          1         Pri GPT header
              2         32         Pri GPT table
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             40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
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      625141760        655        
      625142415         32         Sec GPT table
      625142447          1         Sec GPT header

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       3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk2s3
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    ****************    Update    *****************
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    Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
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    ===== Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 3:16:30 AM Western Indonesia Time =====
    2014-07-12 03:16:33 +0700: Verifying volume “disk1s1”
    2014-07-12 03:16:33 +0700: Starting verification tool:
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