I ran the file check from Seagate as requested by Bagggi and I got this: Results for volume H: (NTFS)
Volume Label:
Volume Size: 82.34 GB
Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the file system check and result in false errors.
The file system contains errors that need to be repaired.

I ran it in safe mode with networking... it said since I had errors to run chkdsk/f so I did that also and I dont think that picked up anything ( I wasnt home when it finished) and it seemed to boot fine but like i said its random. I have my start up down to bear bones now and my CPU usage is at 6%. right now im running 33 processes. Oh, almost everytime this happens explorer.exe is already running it just takes forever for my desktop to fully load sometimes.

my event viewer seemed clean... but I did find THIS from MS.