Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, there is no other solution to this issue. If the laptops were powered down overnight, there might be a stroke of luck. However, this will be one of the most challenging recoveries in IT history, making it a highly unpleasant experience.
Yeah in context we have about 1000 remote workers down. We have to call them and talk through each machine because we can't fix them remotely because they are stuck boot looping. A large proportion of these users are non-technical.