*whistles innocently*
Also, you should never use the same drive for Mac and Windows. The reason it won't work on a hackintosh? You munge the Windows UEFI bootloader when you do so. You need separate disks. The ones you "broke" either died of old age or something else (check those capacitors on the mobo, because it sounds like something got wired backwards). The worst an install will do is munge the MBR/GPT partition tables and you have to repartition and start over again. Software
cannot break a drive the way yours went out. You'd literally have to be having hundreds of load/unload cycles per minute for that to ever possibly happen.
Also, this one deserves special mention:
Quote:
Set XHCI Handoff to Enabled
There are typically
three settings for this: Disabled, Enabaled/Auto,
Smart Auto. You obviously don't want Disabled. But you also don't want
smart anything. You want plain Jane Enabled/Auto.
Also verify that these are in the /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/ folder:
FakeSMC.kext (mandatory)
FakePCIID.kext (potentially optional, possibly needed) (Location:
https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-fak ... downloads/FakePCIID_XHCIMux.kext (potentially optional, possibly needed) (Location: Same as FakePCIID.kext download)
Failure to have at least FakeSMC.kext in the
Others folder (which will always load regardless of OS version), will render the system unbootable/unusable. Clover must be installed on the USB drive's EFI partition, and then copied over to the EFI partition of your
OS X boot drive. Because Clover resides there, that requires your Windows installation to be on another drive entirely so the Windows bootloader works properly. With Clover handling OS X, you can hit F12 at the Gigabyte boot logo screen and select the
Windows bootloader option that is attached to the drive your Windows install resides on.
Do not use Clover to boot into Windows! Also, if you haven't already,
disable fast boot. You need that boot logo screen to come up to allow the machine to properly POST prior to it reading the clover install.
I'm still not sure why you went with a Radeon instead of an nVidia GPU though. While select AMD GPUs have native Apple driver support, it's hardly optimized and if you intend to do OS X gaming at all, nVidia's support is far better.