Resize windows 8 partition on OSX Yosemite

When I initially setup my Windows 8 partition through Bootcamp, I split my HD roughly in half. I've now come to realise that I don't need that much space on the Windows size, and require more on the Mac side (win for mac!).
I'd like to resize the Windows partition to make it smaller -- how do I do this?
Kind regards,
Jeremy

There are no Apple tools which support this. The Apple direction is explicit. From Boot Camp 5.1: Frequently asked questions - Apple Support
Can I resize the Windows partition after installing Windows?
No. Back up your important files, then use Boot Camp Assistant to delete the old partition and create a new one.
There are third-party commercial tools like Winclone and Camptune which do that. You may be able to Gparted, but I have not tested it.

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RESOLUTION:
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I am stuck at looking for R.NTFS in the hexdump - just not seeing it.
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sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
p
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0000559C-20E2-0000-CF43-0000BF440000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6 sectors (3.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI system partition
   2          409640       109093311   51.8 GiB    AF05 Macintosh HD
   3       109093312       110362855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       110362856       236978142   60.4 GiB    0700 Microsoft basic data
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110362856 (for first sector)
236978142 (for last sector)
0700
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00000000 b7 47 8d fe b6 15 fd 3d 9d 00 f9 1f ba 87 78 9a |.G.....=......x.|
00000010 f2 b3 f5 3b a7 fc 03 5b 69 c5 c4 63 6e f9 77 77 |...;...[i..cn.ww|
00000020 a7 4b 9e 31 82 8c b8 ad b5 4e 45 dc 08 54 44 6b |.K.1.....NE..TDk|
00000030 a0 22 6e 64 5f 6e 45 2a a2 95 41 45 fc 10 e8 06 |."nd_nE*..AE....|
00000040 67 ff 8f dd cd 67 bf db 3f 03 1d fb f6 4c 87 b3 |g....g..?....L..|
00000050 bf 44 3b fb 4b bb 67 18 c7 af 59 85 c3 96 75 27 |.D;.K.g...Y...u'|
00000060 12 e0 79 fe 0b 6e 4b 36 cc 0c cf 6f d8 cb fc 4f |..y..nK6...o...O|
00000070 e0 00 4b c2 17 b6 b0 a9 e2 c5 36 00 53 5c 18 98 |..K.......6.S\..|
00000080 7e 42 92 e1 92 bb d3 49 77 9e 3a 63 10 04 f8 07 |~B.....Iw.:c....|
00000090 6a e5 ec 5e 31 07 bc d3 97 25 fb 90 52 b7 7f ac |j..^1....%..R...|
000000a0 dd ea 92 4f 3b 94 54 0b 1c 05 d3 6d 4e bf d7 c6 |...O;.T....mN...|
000000b0 a2 b6 2d 22 aa 07 a3 f6 7f c7 eb 98 f9 8b b3 f8 |..-"............|
000000c0 48 a4 db fa 47 cd 9e ff 1f b7 ad 6c fd 97 6d 03 |H...G......l..m.|
000000d0 ed 5c cc fa c1 d2 69 84 04 a4 7c 36 bd 22 e9 66 |.\....i...|6.".f|
000000e0 3e 32 fb ba d5 f4 2b 96 d0 5b e1 2c e6 46 f3 c4 |>2....+..[.,.F..|
000000f0 d9 9c fd 3c 71 d1 9e 29 b0 5e ab 3c 2d 95 bb ca |...<q..).^.<-...|
00000100 e5 7a 12 9f 36 ce 6d 30 b6 7b f3 22 e1 1e e4 2b |.z..6.m0.{."...+|
00000110 8a 75 ca fc 42 a9 0b 99 9d 21 ad 29 e5 5f c7 98 |.u..B....!.)._..|
00000120 a3 f8 d6 3d fc 2d ff 33 9c 75 df 5c 0e 53 be b4 |...=.-.3.u.\.S..|
00000130 8e c5 a2 a4 16 3a e4 28 3e f1 36 e1 1a b3 62 0b |.....:.(>.6...b.|
00000140 b9 03 96 4c cd 56 2b 8a 51 a8 91 be c0 25 e7 2c |...L.V+.Q....%.,|
00000150 77 76 e9 19 87 50 54 47 a2 c3 04 e4 78 cc 6b 0a |wv...PTG....x.k.|
00000160 49 11 37 aa f4 5f 94 94 54 2c d9 93 ff 82 20 9a |I.7.._..T,.... .|
00000170 a0 93 8e 40 c3 d3 d4 02 b7 72 5b 9c 4b fe cd 2d |[email protected][.K..-|
00000180 5f 76 75 f1 2e e7 a4 b9 e7 19 c7 06 58 bb 2e 65 |_vu.........X..e|
00000190 5c c1 20 ff 6d 5d 69 fd 26 2b 29 dd ab 93 e5 94 |\. .m]i.&+).....|
000001a0 ae d5 83 fc 3d bb b3 f3 c5 8b d4 41 fe 94 9b 63 |....=......A...c|
000001b0 89 22 c5 f5 db 0b d6 6f 73 3e 60 4e df 25 9b e7 |.".....os>`N.%..|
000001c0 06 fe 84 af f5 d1 71 48 c5 b7 98 9a ad 4d 09 2c |......qH.....M.,|
000001d0 e0 28 fe 56 20 b2 a2 31 ef ea 10 ff d8 ae d5 ee |.(.V ..1........|
000001e0 bc 23 4e f9 57 30 2f f2 2e 50 ea 39 64 ce 57 f8 |.#N.W0/..P.9d.W.|
000001f0 b3 61 d4 b6 db d8 0b c5 b0 55 5c 71 b1 10 83 10 |.a.......U\q....|
00000200
I looked for word R.NTFS but did not find it. So I am stuck at this point.
Here is the output of some other commands.
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                         55.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         64.8 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *55.3 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
                                 Unencrypted
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 8448FE1B-8CF5-412F-92E6-F7BB59B77319
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    Free Space:   18952192 B (19.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 74ED9431-6B81-4B9D-95E2-2FD3743CC362
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family F9134531-DEF5-4D54-BAE5-EB2FCA974389
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          55274766336 B (55.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
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 236978175
      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 108683672      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109093312    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
110362856 126615287      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 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 - 108683672] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 109093312 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

I installed Yosemite and now the Windows bootcamp partition is gone. This is a problem since I do most of my work there... For reference MacFUSE was installed on my computer prior to Yosemite installation (not sure if it matters) Anyway, after looking at various posts here, I ran the following commands and found the following (none of which solved my problems) below.
I am stuck at looking for R.NTFS in the hexdump - just not seeing it.
Where should I go from here? Is there any hope?
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
p
Disk /dev/disk0: 236978176 sectors, 113.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 0000559C-20E2-0000-CF43-0000BF440000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 236978142
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 6 sectors (3.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI system partition
   2          409640       109093311   51.8 GiB    AF05 Macintosh HD
   3       109093312       110362855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       110362856       236978142   60.4 GiB    0700 Microsoft basic data
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110362856 (for first sector)
236978142 (for last sector)
0700
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Then I ran sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C and got the following:
00000000 b7 47 8d fe b6 15 fd 3d 9d 00 f9 1f ba 87 78 9a |.G.....=......x.|
00000010 f2 b3 f5 3b a7 fc 03 5b 69 c5 c4 63 6e f9 77 77 |...;...[i..cn.ww|
00000020 a7 4b 9e 31 82 8c b8 ad b5 4e 45 dc 08 54 44 6b |.K.1.....NE..TDk|
00000030 a0 22 6e 64 5f 6e 45 2a a2 95 41 45 fc 10 e8 06 |."nd_nE*..AE....|
00000040 67 ff 8f dd cd 67 bf db 3f 03 1d fb f6 4c 87 b3 |g....g..?....L..|
00000050 bf 44 3b fb 4b bb 67 18 c7 af 59 85 c3 96 75 27 |.D;.K.g...Y...u'|
00000060 12 e0 79 fe 0b 6e 4b 36 cc 0c cf 6f d8 cb fc 4f |..y..nK6...o...O|
00000070 e0 00 4b c2 17 b6 b0 a9 e2 c5 36 00 53 5c 18 98 |..K.......6.S\..|
00000080 7e 42 92 e1 92 bb d3 49 77 9e 3a 63 10 04 f8 07 |~B.....Iw.:c....|
00000090 6a e5 ec 5e 31 07 bc d3 97 25 fb 90 52 b7 7f ac |j..^1....%..R...|
000000a0 dd ea 92 4f 3b 94 54 0b 1c 05 d3 6d 4e bf d7 c6 |...O;.T....mN...|
000000b0 a2 b6 2d 22 aa 07 a3 f6 7f c7 eb 98 f9 8b b3 f8 |..-"............|
000000c0 48 a4 db fa 47 cd 9e ff 1f b7 ad 6c fd 97 6d 03 |H...G......l..m.|
000000d0 ed 5c cc fa c1 d2 69 84 04 a4 7c 36 bd 22 e9 66 |.\....i...|6.".f|
000000e0 3e 32 fb ba d5 f4 2b 96 d0 5b e1 2c e6 46 f3 c4 |>2....+..[.,.F..|
000000f0 d9 9c fd 3c 71 d1 9e 29 b0 5e ab 3c 2d 95 bb ca |...<q..).^.<-...|
00000100 e5 7a 12 9f 36 ce 6d 30 b6 7b f3 22 e1 1e e4 2b |.z..6.m0.{."...+|
00000110 8a 75 ca fc 42 a9 0b 99 9d 21 ad 29 e5 5f c7 98 |.u..B....!.)._..|
00000120 a3 f8 d6 3d fc 2d ff 33 9c 75 df 5c 0e 53 be b4 |...=.-.3.u.\.S..|
00000130 8e c5 a2 a4 16 3a e4 28 3e f1 36 e1 1a b3 62 0b |.....:.(>.6...b.|
00000140 b9 03 96 4c cd 56 2b 8a 51 a8 91 be c0 25 e7 2c |...L.V+.Q....%.,|
00000150 77 76 e9 19 87 50 54 47 a2 c3 04 e4 78 cc 6b 0a |wv...PTG....x.k.|
00000160 49 11 37 aa f4 5f 94 94 54 2c d9 93 ff 82 20 9a |I.7.._..T,.... .|
00000170 a0 93 8e 40 c3 d3 d4 02 b7 72 5b 9c 4b fe cd 2d |[email protected][.K..-|
00000180 5f 76 75 f1 2e e7 a4 b9 e7 19 c7 06 58 bb 2e 65 |_vu.........X..e|
00000190 5c c1 20 ff 6d 5d 69 fd 26 2b 29 dd ab 93 e5 94 |\. .m]i.&+).....|
000001a0 ae d5 83 fc 3d bb b3 f3 c5 8b d4 41 fe 94 9b 63 |....=......A...c|
000001b0 89 22 c5 f5 db 0b d6 6f 73 3e 60 4e df 25 9b e7 |.".....os>`N.%..|
000001c0 06 fe 84 af f5 d1 71 48 c5 b7 98 9a ad 4d 09 2c |......qH.....M.,|
000001d0 e0 28 fe 56 20 b2 a2 31 ef ea 10 ff d8 ae d5 ee |.(.V ..1........|
000001e0 bc 23 4e f9 57 30 2f f2 2e 50 ea 39 64 ce 57 f8 |.#N.W0/..P.9d.W.|
000001f0 b3 61 d4 b6 db d8 0b c5 b0 55 5c 71 b1 10 83 10 |.a.......U\q....|
00000200
I looked for word R.NTFS but did not find it. So I am stuck at this point.
Here is the output of some other commands.
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                         55.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         64.8 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *55.3 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
                                 Unencrypted
diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 8448FE1B-8CF5-412F-92E6-F7BB59B77319
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    Free Space:   18952192 B (19.0 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 74ED9431-6B81-4B9D-95E2-2FD3743CC362
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     55646040064 B (55.6 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family F9134531-DEF5-4D54-BAE5-EB2FCA974389
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 483AFFC7-5E15-49BF-A54D-702A05D9E007
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          55274766336 B (55.3 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
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 236978175
      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 108683672      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
109093312    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
110362856 126615287      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
236978143         32         Sec GPT table
236978175          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 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 - 108683672] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 109093312 -    1269544] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

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Like so many others, I installed OSX Yosemite this morning and now Boot Camp no longer works.
After I updated to Yosemite I restarted my computer, held down alt, and was presented nothing but a Macintosh HD. I followed “Loner T’s” instructions. Here's my info...
MiMac:~ Mike$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         351.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         397.7 GB   disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *350.6 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 8FA5E92E-AD22-4963-A728-00057E6BEB99
                                 Unencrypted
MiMac:~ Mike$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group BACE3EFD-026C-4E8C-A749-2F22BE55CD85
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         350971142144 B (351.0 GB)
    Free Space:   18915328 B (18.9 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B5CB58D7-8B4E-4E8F-B676-4A3A08C4C10C
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     350971142144 B (351.0 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 22A44CAD-28FC-42EE-9017-FA335F527AF8
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 8FA5E92E-AD22-4963-A728-00057E6BEB99
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          350599905280 B (350.6 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
MiMac:~ Mike$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
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 1465149167
       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   685490512      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   685900152     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   687169688   776709904      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1463879592     1269543
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
MiMac:~ Mike$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 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: AC 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 685490512] <Unknown ID>
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 685900152 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
MiMac:~ Mike$

Your case may be simpler to resolve. You do not have the MBR entry for Windows.
Do you a NTFS header "R.NTFS" when you run the following command in Terminal?
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