Power on and insert your Snow Leopard disc, restart and press option key, select the Snow Leopard disc and press enter, go into disk utilities and format the new hard drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled, and name it Macintosh HD or whatever you want.
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You must always format a new hard drive for Mac. Power on and insert your Snow Leopard disc, restart and press option key, select the Snow Leopard disc and press enter, go into disk utilities and format the new hard drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled, and name it Macintosh HD or whatever you want. Then select security options and zero out data. Then select the erase button to format the new hard drive. This takes a while depending on hard drive size, so go read you a book or go grocery shopping.
Sometimes this computer acts stupid when trying to install software, so remove the RAM chip and re-insert firmly and try again. If this don't work, then remove the RAM chip again and try install without the RAM chip or insert a different RAM chip with larger memory.
Alternatively, you can use another working computer and hook the two up via firewire and install using target disk mode. Your working computer with Snow Leopard disc would be the master and the other computer with new hard drive would be where you want to install the OS.
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Hope this has enlightened you and given you a path of direction.
Power on and insert your Snow Leopard disc, restart and press option key, select the Snow Leopard disc and press enter, go into disk utilities and format the new hard drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled, and name it Macintosh HD or whatever you want.
Sometimes this computer acts stupid when trying to install software, so remove the RAM chip and re-insert firmly and try again. If this don't work, then remove the RAM chip again and try install without the RAM chip or insert a different RAM chip with larger memory.
Alternatively, you can use another working computer and hook the two up via firewire and install using target disk mode. Your working computer with Snow Leopard disc would be the master and the other computer with new hard drive would be where you want to install the OS.