I too had this issue. But I found a fix. Follow these steps:Once you hear the chime sound after turning on the Mac, press and hold CMD and R together till you see a Mac logo or a spinning globe.You will enter into recovery Mode. Now click disc utility.In disc utility, find for your internal hard drive. Click on 'Show all devices/drives'.Above Macintosh HD , you will see an option:Toshiba/ Samsung drive 128/256GB. This is the main drive.Click on the drive. Then click erase.Select Mac OS Extended (journaled) as the format.After erasing the drive, close disc utility.Click Re-Install MacOS.Now the setup should get completed without issues.If you do encounter an issue, then create a bootable USB of MacOS(plenty of tutorials on YouTube) and then repeat the steps above.

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FIX(APRIL 2018) Could not create a preboot volume for APFS install

I too had this issue. But I found a fix. Follow these steps:

Once you hear the chime sound after turning on the Mac, press and hold CMD and R together till you see a Mac logo or a spinning globe.
You will enter into recovery Mode. Now click disc utility.
In disc utility, find for your internal hard drive. Click on 'Show all devices/drives'.
Above Macintosh HD , you will see an option:Toshiba/ Samsung drive 128/256GB. This is the main drive.
Click on the drive. Then click erase.
Select Mac OS Extended (journaled) as the format.
After erasing the drive, close disc utility.
Click Re-Install MacOS.
Now the setup should get completed without issues.
If you do encounter an issue, then create a bootable USB of MacOS(plenty of tutorials on YouTube) and then repeat the steps above.

macOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

Posted on Apr 9, 2018 8:23 AM