I Messed Up MacBook Pro 13 After Reset

[magentawave]

My son gave me his super clean and very lightly used MacBook Pro 13 (mid 2014 - A1502). It was running Big Sur and he had deleted it from his iCloud account. After doing a factory reset on start up I see a flashing white folder with a question mark on it. I watched a few YouTube videos and hit power > Command R and verified and repaired both disks with Disk Utility (not sure if that did anything though). Then started it again and got a screen that said “Install OSX Yosemite” (remember, it was running Big Sur) > continue > agreed to terms. Then the screen said “OSX Yosemite” and “select disk to install OSX.” Problem is there are no disks below that to select. Tried that a few times and got the same result.

Then I did Power and Option key and it asked me to choose the wifi network and enter wifi password. I did that a few times and all I see after it finishes with internet recovery is a globe with an exclamation mark on it. Under that in small letters it says: -1005F

Any suggestions, please?

Not sure if this will help but the images below show what the disks look like in Disk Utility. The last image is what I see after starting with Power and the R key.

 

[DarkPremiumCho]

-1005F means it could not contact Apple to retrieve the resources for reinstall. If you can get into “Install OS X Yosemite” again, go to Disk Utility and erase the 121.33 GB APPLE SSD to MacOS Extended (Journaled) with GUID partition scheme. After that you should be able to select that disk to install OS X.

Another solution would be creating a USB installer from another Mac if you have one.

 

[magentawave]

I tried starting with Power + Command + Option + R (AGAIN!) and was able to do the internet recovery this time and re-install Big Sur. No idea why it wouldn’t let me do it the several times I tried before. I just completed doing that and would delete this thread but the forum won’t let me.

Thank you and sorry to waste your time.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

I tried starting with Power + Command + Option + R (AGAIN!) and was able to do the internet recovery this time and re-install Big Sur. No idea why it wouldn’t let me do it the several times I tried before. I just completed doing that and would delete this thread but the forum won’t let me.

Thank you and sorry to waste your time.

It's great that you're up and running again. As to deleting your thread- there's advice here now that could be beneficial to others with the same or similar error/ problem. All just builds on the knowledge-base in MR.

You could, if you want to, mark this thread as "resolved". To the right of your first post, click on the horizontal three dots>more options>edit thread>drop down menu of title threat has a prefix "resolved" you can click, then save. This way all can see not to write more advice or can follow it for own problem solving.