Eclipse Indigo hangs on splash screen workspace

So today I came in to work and saw that my wonderful windows machine was restarted due to Windows Update, and yesterday I was working on some java stuff and did not close out my eclipse, thank god that I do regular code check-in 🙂

Anyways tried to relaunch eclipse and it kept hanging on workspace.

To fix that I had to go into my workspace folder C:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins

Then I copied the org.eclipse.core.resources to a backup directory and deleted it from the plugins folder.

I restarted Eclipse and then did a File->Import->Existing Project into Workspace and browse my workspace/project directory

And voila I was back in action 🙂