Help regarding Macbook Air

• If your Mac starts up to a question mark - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204323

A folder with a flashing question mark:

"Means that your startup disk is no longer available - or doesn't contain a

working Mac operating system. Press and hold the power button on your

Mac for up to 10 seconds, until your Mac turns off." ~ Further steps apply.

Further steps before 'throwing-in-the-towel' ~ from above Support article include:

1. Press and hold the power button on your Mac for up to 10 seconds, until your Mac turns off.
2. Turn on your Mac and immediately press and hold Command (⌘) and R to start up from macOS Recovery.
3. While in macOS Recovery, use Disk Utility to repair your startup disk.
4. If Disk Utility found no errors or repaired all errors, take either of these actions:

• Reinstall macOS
• Restore from a Time Machine backup

[If you still need help, please contact Apple Support.]

• Apple Repair and Repair Status Check - Official Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/repair

{One of Apple options, depending on locality: allows user to return

the Mac to Apple repair, in box they send out for this purpose.}

You have a failing hard drive, and it’s too late to recover your files.

If this is, you can have a HD installed by Apple. (After this pandemic), or you can order one yourself and hand-install it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204323

There may not be a Operating System (OS) on the drive either. I also may not be able to find the host folder.