Finder stuck for 5 minutes when I open local hard disk

[JJM777]

Using OS X 10.3.9,

When I open the local hard disk in Finder, the computer gets stuck for several minutes, until Finder opens the hard disk.

Any ideas how to speed things up a bit?

 

[atlanticza]

Upgrade your OS?

 

[BertyBoy]

Upgrade your OS?

An unhelpful wild guess ?

Open the Energy Saver System Pref, uncheck the "Put the hard disks to sleep when possible" for 24 hours. See if it makes a difference.
Could be an issue spinning up sleeping disks. Is there anything else we should know ? ie. Is it the boot disk, or another internal disk ? Do you use the Software RAID ?

Have you run the volume through Disk Utility First Aid ?

 

[JJM777]

Upgrading the OS is not possible because of a stiff company environment.

But running Disk Utility First Aid solved the problem, thanks!