MacBook (early 2015) stuck on Mac utilities page

Alright so back when MacOS Big Sur was in its beta days I went ahead and joined the public beta but I was having some issues with my Mac so I factory reset my MacBook and after I factory reset it the Mac brings me to the utilities page and saying I can only reinstall MacOS X and it won’t even let me do that, every time I reinstall the software it just brings me back to the utilities page every single time. Any info would be great thank you.

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Posted on Feb 1, 2021 4:14 PM

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DonH49

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Posted on Feb 1, 2021 4:22 PM

since you did Big Sur the drive must be AFPS and if you are trying to install prior to Catalina & Big Sur then use Disk Utility to erase drive to HFS+. hopefully you saved all your data.

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DonH49

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Feb 1, 2021 4:22 PM in response to phoenix203

since you did Big Sur the drive must be AFPS and if you are trying to install prior to Catalina & Big Sur then use Disk Utility to erase drive to HFS+. hopefully you saved all your data.

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Feb 1, 2021 8:50 PM in response to phoenix203

phoenix203 Author

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Feb 1, 2021 8:51 PM in response to phoenix203

I’ve done internet recovery and I’m at the Big Sur installation screen but it’s still giving me the same issue is there anything I need to revise with my drives?

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Feb 1, 2021 5:24 PM in response to DonH49

It’s not giving me an option to format it as HFS+

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MacBook (early 2015) stuck on Mac utilities page