Hi,
Yesterday I tried to factory reset my mid 2010 MacBook Air to sell it. I went into macOS utilities and erased the hard drive, then I tried to reinstall macOS Yosemite from the Apple Store. However, it forced me to log into Apple ID, and I don't know the password, I think it's locked out. I have tried to recover this Apple ID before, and it didn't work. Anyways, I assume there is some way around this, so I went into internet recovery. I waited for internet recovery to install, and all it did was change the OS to Lion (10.7), and I was still stuck at utilities, and unable to install because the Apple ID i used on the MacBook was locked out. When I try using my other Apple ID to reinstall macOS, it says "this item is temporarily unavailable" every time. So I tried installing Yosemite onto a bootable USB, using DiskMaker X. At this point, the only way i can access utilities is to go into internet recovery every time, if i don't, the macbook opens with a flashing folder with a question mark. So when i go into disk utility and try to open startup disk to boot from the USB, startup disk is blank. When i try to boot into startup manager using alt (option), nothing happens, and it goes straight to the flashing folder.
I am no noob when it comes to fixing stuff, but I literally think I bricked my MacBook and now I have no laptop for school. Please help!
Yesterday I tried to factory reset my mid 2010 MacBook Air to sell it. I went into macOS utilities and erased the hard drive, then I tried to reinstall macOS Yosemite from the Apple Store. However, it forced me to log into Apple ID, and I don't know the password, I think it's locked out. I have tried to recover this Apple ID before, and it didn't work. Anyways, I assume there is some way around this, so I went into internet recovery. I waited for internet recovery to install, and all it did was change the OS to Lion (10.7), and I was still stuck at utilities, and unable to install because the Apple ID i used on the MacBook was locked out. When I try using my other Apple ID to reinstall macOS, it says "this item is temporarily unavailable" every time. So I tried installing Yosemite onto a bootable USB, using DiskMaker X. At this point, the only way i can access utilities is to go into internet recovery every time, if i don't, the macbook opens with a flashing folder with a question mark. So when i go into disk utility and try to open startup disk to boot from the USB, startup disk is blank. When i try to boot into startup manager using alt (option), nothing happens, and it goes straight to the flashing folder.
I am no noob when it comes to fixing stuff, but I literally think I bricked my MacBook and now I have no laptop for school. Please help!
