Finder hangs on boot up

[stringzz]

I have a new 2.8 single quad core Mac Pro. I have a HD on Bay 2 that I have partitioned with Boot Camp and have a ntfs partition with Win XP. Lately, I have noticed sometimes when I log into my account that Finder hangs with the beach ball and it looks like Finder can't find the WinXP partition. The beach ball hangs in Finder, but I can run other applications. I have tried to force quit Finder with no luck in hopes of reseting it. I eventually have to do a hard reset.

Any ideas why this would be happening?

 

[stringzz]

I still get this issue, and it's really frustrating! I bought a MAC because the OS is supposed to be stable, yet it's like I am dealing with Vista here.

Is the Bootcamp partition causing the issue? My bootcamp partition is using NTFS, does this cause issues for osX?

 

[tugger]

Does it happen consistently?

Have you considered that the drive may be faulty or there may be a bad sector? Have you run a disk utility program to check the drive's integrity?

Have you tried a Boot Camp and Windows re-install?

 

[stringzz]

It happens around 25% of the time, and then I can't quit and restart finder, nor can I restart, I have to hold the power button to restart the computer.

I'll check the disk.