How to speed up Intel 760P 2TB boot times for Valorant?
It's honestly ridiculous that in an era of instant loading, my Intel 760P 2TB was taking 40 seconds to boot—felt like I was back on a mechanical platter from 2010. I found that heavy write cycles had left the disk about 18-22% fragmented, causing the drive to struggle with seeking boot files. I tried reinstalling the game on a different partition, but it only saved me 2 seconds; a completely pointless effort. I finally forced a system-level TRIM command and used an alignment tool to verify the 4K sector status. My boot logs showed loading times plummet from 38.2s to a crisp 14.5s. I hit a 'disk space low' error during the TRIM process, but clearing 50GB of temp files cleared it up. Temps are now 38-44℃. I exported the logs to verify the gains, and my fans are humming steadily at 1400-1600RPM.
