As far as the SWAP goes, 1.5 or 2 x RAM is an old calculation when at the time RAM was expensive and Hard Drives were slower than they are now. My rule is simple: If you have a 32bit OS SWAP should not exceed 2GB no matter how much RAM, and on 64bit SWAP should not exceed 1GB (none is fine unless you plan to run VM's) if you have 4 or more gb of RAM. As far as your drive issue, on your main OS we can try to find the UIID with
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blkid
then we can edit the /etc/fstab and force mount if needed. Then if that doesn't work we know that the partition table is destroyed. Unless you know for a fact it is, and disaster recovery software may be your only option?