I was just booting up my computer, and I was receiving a strange “no operating system” message after the bios screen. My first thought was that my bootloader was messed up, although it was not a GRUB error. So I booted the rescue system. I wanted it to just check my bootloader, but in the process it did a filesystem check, and told me that my home partition was corrupt. I then (perhaps foolishly) let it do a repair. Turns out that my problem was simply that the bios thought that the external hardrive I had plugged in was the root device, so it wouldn’t boot from the internal drive. I got that all taken care of, but now my /home partition is completely empty. Most of my data is backed up, but it’s going to take a long time to get everything set up again, and I lost my VBox machines and some other large files completely. Is there any way to revert the home partiton and get some of my data back? It was an ext3 filesystem.
I really would appreciate some help!