Macbook Pro 2014 won't boot to recovery mode
Help. I tried searching the discussions but nothing clear is coming up.
Last night, I saw that my machine (MPB mid2014, Big Sur) suddenly open to the OS Utilities window - I wasn't using the machine at the time.
I shut down and rebooted, and things seemed back to normal. But the same thing happened this evening. I shut down, did a PRAM and SMC reset, logged in ok but as apps were reloading the machine froze, reset, and now I can't get to the Recovery Utilities window again despite holding cmd-R at start up. It goes straight to Internet Recovery mode when I try or otherwise comes up with the Question Mark folder screen.
I want to get to Utilities to use Disk Utility to check my SSD - I don't want to do an Internet Recovery reinstall!
Any help greatly appreciated 🙏🏻 ☹
MacBook Pro 15″