2017 MacBook Bro only boots to ?-folder and internet recovery screens
I received a Macbook Pro secondhand and it is my very first apple product. here we go.. upon initial boot, it brought me to the question mark folder screen that told me to go to support.apple.com/yaya. After doing the instructions on that page, I found. it to fail in the reisnatllation of High Sierra. I went to the disk utility. Erased the disk. Reformatted it ran the first aid kit or whatever they call it. Try the reinstallation process and it failed. with like one second remaining. So now I get a flash drive and I throw an install.dmg on there To try to use the plane restore option I seen in the disk utilities. That got me farther than I did last time I was able to complete successfully, but when I rebooted it rebooted me to that ?-folder screen. The only time that I don't move to that ?-folder screen is when I use the various key commands to use while you boot up. Every single time I'm taken to the Internet recovery screen where I have to enter my WiFi password. That is the only constant never fails.
Since then, here are some things that I've tried>
Resetting all suggested hotkey resets>each boot folder screen or Internet Recovery screen
Made A bootable drive formatted to GUID. Using Transmac. a program that I found wasn't suggested that if you didn't have access to another Mac> I've been through so many different boot cycles. I don't remember what happened When I booted that method.
I've tried various combinations of all tutorials that I've seen online to fix this. All have failed. Occasionally I will get a different type of screen after Internet recovery screen. It gives me an option to select the language. This time, the Internet recovery process takes a little while longer. But after I select the language, I get to the recovery screen> reinstallOS, time machine and. disk utility. yadda. I choose reinstall OS I go through the stops choosing desk, agreeing to everything, selecting an addition and all. this time it always seems. to fail with exactly 399 seconds left in installation every single time. I've had it to the point of killing itself with failure notice with as little as six seconds left.
I refuse to believe it as simply a dry failure. There has to be something I can do, and if there isn't. well, then that's dogsh*t. I read that these solid state guys are soldered right to the board. That is such a dumb idea. I've used windows and Android my whole life might have never been this frustrated.
MacBook (2017)