Mac OS Won’t Boot

[StickyPC]

Hello, 

I have a MacBook Air from either 2014 or 2013 (model is A1466) 

 

I accidentally erased the boot drive while trying to factory reset the MacBook.

 

The MacBook will now not boot and comes up with a Folder with a question mark and an Apple support website

 

when I hold down the option key at startup it comes up with internet recovery as the only option, I select my wifi details and it starts internet recovery but then asks me for wifi again and when I entered wifi the second time it doesn’t do anything and constantly fails.

 

What do I do? Do I have to take it to a computer specialist or do I have to buy a star pointed screwdriver to access the ssd and then use another computer to restore macOS? Or is there something I can do from the startup?

[Needfuldoer]

Internet Recovery should boot, if you can connect to your router via Ethernet. Then once it's booted, you may have to set the clock back a few years due to expired certificates.

 

If you have another Mac in the house, you can use that to create a bootable install flash drive. (It's possible to make a MacOS install drive on Windows, but it's complicated.) You could also use target disk mode to install the OS right to the MacBook's SSD without taking it apart.

[StickyPC]

The Macbooo doesn’t have an Ethernet port and I don’t have an adapter for it

 

Also, I don’t have another Mac but I do have a windows PC, the thing is I can’t access the boot menu to choose the boot device so even if I did create a bootable usb I couldn’t boot from it because I couldn’t access the boot devices menu

 

 

[corrado33]

On 11/1/2023 at 6:05 AM, StickyPC said:

 

Also, I don’t have another Mac but I do have a windows PC, the thing is I can’t access the boot menu to choose the boot device so even if I did create a bootable usb I couldn’t boot from it because I couldn’t access the boot devices menu

 

Holding down option IS the boot menu. You just don't have any other available boot options (other than internet recovery.)

 

You just need another boot option. Whether that's a macos usb, or a dvd with an external drive, or anything. 

 

Why does the online recovery fail? What happens? 

[StickyPC]

On 11/21/2023 at 12:48 AM, corrado33 said:

 

Holding down option IS the boot menu. You just don't have any other available boot options (other than internet recovery.)

 

You just need another boot option. Whether that's a macos usb, or a dvd with an external drive, or anything. 

 

Why does the online recovery fail? What happens? 

The recovery asks for the internet and then I enter the internet password. Then it says "Internet recovery in progress this may take a while" Then it goes back to the screen for wifi and when i enter my wifi details nothing happens