what if it shuts off as soon as i hit one of the options?

ssierrabbauer Said:

"what if it shuts down as soon as i chose one of those options"

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Four Things to Try:

A. Mount the Hard Drive in Disk Utility:

While booted into Recovery Mode [Hold Down: command + R keys upon boot], go to Disk Utility> tap the Hard Drive, then tap the Mount button. See if you can then install it. If it is already mounted, then unmount it and then remount it. See where you can go from there.

B. Seeing your Your Hard Drive is Failing:

Run First Aid and see if things are fixed.

1. Boot: into Recovery Mode (Hold Down: [command + R] upon boot)
2. Select: Disk Utility
3. Select: the Drive
4. Click: First Aid button

C. Reset your SMC and your NVRAM:

Sometimes changes are made to the system and then settings (i.e. for Wi-Fi) become corrupted, in the meanwhile. So, reset both on your Mac. See where it goes from there. It’s worth a go.

• How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
• Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

D. Try Safe Mode:

In Safe Mode, login items do not run, and corrupt system files(i.e. caches) are intentionally reset as a way to fix issues

1. Boot: in to Safe Mode: [Hold Down: shift key upon boot].
2. Log in: as same user
3. Wait: 30 seconds
4. Restart; your Mac
5. Log in: as same user

ssierrabbauer Said:

"what if it shuts down as soon as i chose one of those options"

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What options? Is it shutting down on its own? Are you stuck at the login screen?