Macbook Pro won't boot after installing High Sierra

I installed High Sierra on my Macbook Pro and it seemed to go fine until the last step when it was restarting the computer. There was a long wait where a load bar indicated the status of the install. That finished and then the system tried to reboot. The load bar filled to 100% but never gave me the login page and I haven't been able to get past black screen with the apple icon and load bar since then.

Things that I've tried so far that haven't worked:

1) Recovery Mode-- the system does not give me disk utility when I try to use recovery mode, I just go straight to the apple icon and load bar

2) Internet Recovery Mode-- I get the globe and when that finishes, instead of giving me disk utility it sends me straight to the apple icon and load bar

3) Safe Mode-- goes straight to apple icon and load bar

4) Reset NVRAM-- reset works, but I still get stuck on loading screen

5) SMC reset-- I still get stuck on loading screen

6) Running fsck from single user mode-- it says that the disk seems OK but I still can't boot

7) Choosing my drive from the startup manager-- doesn't boot, when using startup manager the only option is my mac HD disk

Errors that seem weird when I start in single user mode:

disk1s1: device is not readable

disk1s1: IO failed, error = 13

hfs_mountfs: buf_meta_bread failed with 13

hfs_mount: hfs_mountfs returned error=13 for device unknown-dev

hfs_mountroot failed: 13

....

er_state_obj_get_for_recovery:36883:No ER state object -rolling is not happening, nothing to recover.

...

apfs_vfsop_mount:1272: failed to retreive boot-manifest-hash

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(there is more, but I'm not sure which parts are the most helpful so I will stop here.

I haven't tried re-installing OS from a USB because I don't own one

If anyone has experience with this issue and knows a fix, please let me know!

Thanks for reading this clunky and un-informed post. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Peggy 🙂