Wiped my drive and now I can not reinstall OS

[stanw]

I was on El Capitan, though I was having problems with my MBP so I reluctantly upgraded to High Sierra. The problems persisted so I took it into the Apple store and they sent it for repairs. Now that I have it back I booted into Disk Utility to erase the drive, I rebooted by holding down Command + R and choose to reinstall OS and it tried to install El Capitan, though when I get to the screen where it asks which drive to install it to it never gives me an option so I can’t move forward. I tried restarting by holding down option + command + R to just reinstall the latest OS available, and when it boots it gives me a circle with a line through it. I cut the power to it and when I turn it back on it immediately goes to the circle with the line through it.

How can I get some version of an OS back on the Mac?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Fishrrman]

What year is the MacBook Pro?

If you can't get into "internet recovery", then I can think of 2 things:
1. Take it back to the Apple Store, let them re-install the OS for you and THIS TIME DON'T ERASE WHAT THEY PUT ON IT.
or
2. Go to ebay. There are sellers there who will sell you a USB flashdrive with the OS installer of your choice pre-installed on it. Will cost you about $20. I'd suggest you request OS 10.12, "Low Sierra". Or, try El Cap.

If you go the USB flashdrive route, you'll need to:
a. Boot from the flashdrive
b. Open Disk Utility
c. ERASE the internal drive to Mac OS extended with journaling enabled, GUID partition format
d. Open the installer then re-install the OS.

 

[BLUEDOG314]

Knowing the year and model would really help here. It's odd this is happening when you just got the machine back. Anyhow, if we can determine this isn't a hardware problem, we can get you rolled back to whatever compatible version you want.