Spinning Ball and cannot see my harddrive

I'm having a problem seeing my hardrive when I log into the main user account. All of the other accounts work fine,"I see the harddrive in the other accounts". When I'm in the main account I don't see the hardrive or the Finder windows. I do see the side bar icons,and the applications work when I click on them. Also the spinning ball is going all the time in this account.
Any suggestions what to do?
,Thanks

Try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption.
Post back with any errors it reports please.
Cheers!
DALE

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