wizardbeard , 4 hours ago

It also assumes that reimaging is always an option.

Yes, every company should have networked storage enforced specifically for issues like this, so no user data would be lost, but there’s often a gap between should and “has been able to find the time and get the required business side buy in to make it happen”.

Also, users constantly find new ways to do non-standard, non-supported things with business critical data.