After just over one year of the smoothest OS X/MacOS computing experience (including that experienced on genuine Macs), my hackintosh finally bit the dust after a routine software update. After ignoring the prompt to update my machine for the better part of six months, I finally decided to update to the latest version of MacOS Sierra (I was running version one or two of Sierra). Using the Apple app store, I downloaded the update installer and ran it as intended. My machine restarted and I watched as the loading bar beneath the happy Apple logo advanced and the time remaining trended toward zero. However, at about 8 minutes remaining on the update, my cursor turned to the spinning pinwheel of death and my machine abruptly shut down without any user input.
Here is where my woes begin. Upon powering the machine back on and booting into MacOS from Clover, I kept seeing the same thing: the Apple splash screen would appear as normal and so would the loading bar; however, the loading bar would advance to about two thirds of the way and then stop completely. After this, the machine would sit frozen for about fifteen minutes until the screen would go black and would not come back on with user input to the mouse or keyboard (the power light on my computer would remain on).
Attempting to troubleshoot, I booted in my recovered HD partition from Clover and it did work. I repaired my hard disk using Disk Utility but that helped in no way. I tried to install a fresh copy of MacOS using the built-in installer and this did not work either. When booting into the installer, the same exact thing would happen: the loading bar would advance to two thirds of the way and then stop.
I then erased and reformatted my drive in Disk Utility. I made a brand new installer USB using Unibeast on a real MacBook. I booted from the USB, installed a new copy of MacOS, booted into it from Clover (off the USB), ran the latest version of MultiBeast, and rebooted. To my utter shock and dismay the same exact thing happened when booting to the newly installed copy of MacOS. The loading bar advanced to two thirds of the way... and then stopped.
It was at this point that I realized every time I tried to boot into MacOS, a new partition would be created on my hard drive with the same name. When looking at the boot menu on my motherboard bios, the same 'UEFI: P1 Samsung 500GB SSD' would show up like 90 times.
At this point, I gave up and tried to install a totally legit copy of Windows 10 (which also failed, but that's because I have 0% knowledge of what I'm doing).
Help of any kind here would be much appreciated. I have been without my workhorse for a long couple of days and it's taking its tole.
For anyone who wants to help, my build is a Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 with an Intel 6700k and a Samsung 850 Evo. Here's the link for the motherboard manual: http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z170mx-gaming5_e.pdf
Thank you all in advance!
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