Then why did Windows take hours to fsck after a hard reset until Windows 8? That's the actual problem, even though I admittedly might have made a mistake in att

Then why did Windows take hours to fsck after a hard reset until Windows 8? That's the actual problem, even though I admittedly might have made a mistake in attributing it to a lack of journaling. I was using Windows on a daily basis across multiple computers and this wasn't a subtle thing. In fact, I still regularly use Windows 7 (oscilloscope, can't update) and occasionally get "reminded" about this, even though I also remember a number of gnarly examples from my everyday computer use. Most people just skipped it, and I did too, until one time it got into a state where no programs would run...