Idle Noise

From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:01:22 +0200

Sometimes my HD becomes active, but as soon as I try to identify the according process in the task manager, the activity stops, and the Idle process consumes almost all the CPU time.

What can this be?

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