Yea SATA and XP seems to have issues. Although the strange thing is, I thought myself lucky; 10 SATA drives hooked up for over 10 months and this is the first time Ive experienced problems like this.... saying that it could also just be the drive. The system has 2 x 200Gb Maxtors (SATA, before they got rid of the normal 4pin power connector), the rest are all newer 300Gb Maxtor Maxlines.
Could just be on its last legs
I can recreate the crash by accessing or searching that folder, but the rest are ok, so Im moving the rest of the files of the drive.