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  • It didn’t move anything. The filesystem got corrupted and that directory was erroneously marked as unused space, which is probably why you were running chkdsk in the first place. Lost and found is the correct place to put files recovered this way because chkdsk doesn’t know where they’re supposed to go. Fsck does the same thing and in fact lost+found is a default directory on most (all?) unices