Comment 3 for bug 248659

I confirm the bug as described by Paul, with a few differences: first, I didn't see the "find..." boot loader display. Instead, I had the "grub>" prompt. However, his observation with the 'disks/' directory matches mine: it was still there initially.

After rebooting into Windows (XP Home in my case), there was no fsck initiated by Windows itself. But the disk/ directory was unaccessible, and Windows told me that it was somehow currupted.

I ran fsck manually. After that, no more a disks/ directory.

So I re-installed Ubuntu....

It was only 2 days later that I noticed the C:\hidden found.000* dir, which did include a "dir0000.chk" subdir, with the swap.disk and root.disk and the "boot" subdir.

So far, I did not yet have time to try and copy these files back to their original places to test if they'd still work.