cant install an os on my mac

[natej315]

well this was earlier

long story short I cant get into recovery mode and internet recovery mode isnt working i'm trying to get an os back on my drive so I can use this thing again any ideas? sometimes i get the flashing folder with teh question mark in it or a stop sing like once ive got a differant drive i can try
Thanks

its a macbook pro

now

i put the original drive back in it was finally able to do internet recovery or w.e its called and i can get into recovery mode but everytime i want to set my mac back to factory settings it always pops up with osx sierra and it never finishes installing
i just want an os on my hd so i can use it ive been messing with this pos for a few days now

 

[Zepher]

I used a thumbdrive to reload my macbook pro a few months ago. I just can't remember if I made the thumbdrive on my PC or if I used my old macbook air.

ya, I am pretty sure I used the Air since this is the instructions I followed.
https://support.apple.com/en-qa/HT201372

found a pic when I was doing it,

 

[Dew]

i put the original drive back in it was finally able to do internet recovery or w.e its called and i can get into recovery mode but everytime i want to set my mac back to factory settings it always pops up with osx sierra and it never finishes installing

Since you have a working Mac system, use this to make a USB installer from the App Store download: http://diskmakerx.com/

 

[natej315]

well i got it to work ( long story short) reinstalled the os with the SL CD removed the ram i added installed the old ram stick formatted, repaired and verifired the hard drive everything seems to be working good now thanks guys