To create the installation media, here's what you'll need: A PC with a reliable internet connection. The download time will vary, depending on your internet connection. A USB flash drive or DVD. A blank USB flash drive with at least 8 GB of space, or a blank DVD (and DVD burner). Hey guys, My Superdrive is broken and I need to Clean Install my new copy of Snow Leopard over 10.5. I am trying to copy SL from the install disc to a USB drive, using another mac but can't find the Disk Image anywhere on the CD.

Restore Macbook pro without disc, - Power off - Power on and hold the Command key and S key Type: /sbin/mount -uw / rm /var/db/.applesetupdone reboot And aft. 5GB of free hard disk space. 1GB minimum RAM. DVD drive or external USB drive. Download Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 ISO and DMG direct file. Boot back to the Mac you used to make the 10.6.8 external, and image the external drive using Disk Utility, saving the image to another drive or partition. Boot your laptop from the 10.6.8 drive, and apply the image to the internal drive of the laptop. Thus re-imaging the internal drive to 10.6.8 which will boot it - absent any other hardware issues.

Hello and welcome to my User Tip

You need to erase and install 10.6 Snow Leopard, I will show you how to do this.

If your here because you upgraded to 10.7 Lion and want to go back to 10.6 Snow Leopard you need to see this thread.

A little more preparation is in order to make sure your files work in Snow Leopard.

If your here because you have a problem and you think erasing and reinstalling is going to solve it, it most certainly will, but you might not need to go this far and you might want to recover data off the non-booting drive first.

If your here because you want to secure erase data better than writing Zero's acorss the selected hard drive or partition (good enough for most folks), this tip doesn't cover that, see this one then come back here afterwards.

Use the correct 10.6 disk to install Snow Leopard

Use the free MacTracker to find your model of Mac, you can gleam the model from your Apple Menu > About this Mac > More information and look for something like 'MacBook Pro 3,1' and punch that into MacTracker.

There are basically two types of 10.6 install disks, the gray or black machine specfic ones that came with a new Mac (free iLife) or the 10.6.3 retail disks (no free iLife).

You can't use another model of Mac's 10.6 machine specific disks with another Mac, there isn't hardware drivers on those disks that will work on other Mac's.

If a Mac came pre-installed or from the factory with 10.6.3 or later, you cannot use the 10.6.3 retail disks (no iLife) from Apple online, you have to call Apple for your 10.6.3+ machine specific install disks (free iLife included)

Ready to erase and install Snow Leopard?

Your data will be gone after this and not recoverable what so ever, don't come crying later that you missed something.

You might want to take this chance to export web browser bookmarks, grab product keys or even clone the old 10.6 drive before you erase it.

Unmount and disconnect all other drives. No mistakes. Here we go.

Make sure the bottom of the disk is clean, use a very soft cloth and a tiny dab of rubbing alcohol and polish to a shine. 🙂

Hold c (or option/alt key) down on a wired or built in keyboard, and boot the machine, off the 10.6 installer disk (or hold option key boot off the 10.6 clone drive) and under the Utilities menu (folder) is Disk Utility.

To erase the entire drive of all partitions:

Select the entire internal boot drive on the far left, it will have the drive makers name and size.

Do not select the indented names, those are just partitions on the drive, you need to erase the entire drive to catch everything, rebuild the GUID partition table and the hidden EFI partition.

If your here to revert your machine to Snow Leopard from 10.7 or later, then make sure to select the ENTIRE drive on the left in Disk Uitlity.

To erase just the OS X partition leaving others like Bootcamp etc.

Select the indented name of the OS X partition instead, however it will not cure problems in the hidden EFI or GUID partition table. Do not do if your reverting to Snow Leopard from a later OS X verison, because 10.7 and later OS X verisons alter the GUID and add a Recovery HD partition that needs to be removed before 10.6 is reinstalled. This is so later when you need to use the 10.6 disk to repair the drive, it knows what is on the boot drive.

Click Erase > Security option > Zero All Data (will map off any failing sectors) go watch a movie, it takes a bit and improves your hard drives reliability and read speeds. (SSD no need zero, just erase). Trust me this works wonders!

If the Disk Utility > Zero Erase fails or hangs, the drive has run out of spare sectors and is worthless, it will have to be replaced, better you found out now than later with your data on it.

Check under Partition: Options that you have a GUID and Format: OS X Extended Journaled, if not change it to those and apply.

Quit Disk Utility. You will be back into the 10.6 installer.

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If your using your option key bootable 10.6 clone, use the cloning software to reverse clone 10.6 onto the internal drive then return your files from the storage drive. Your done, see you later.

Now for you who just erased the internal drive via the 10.6 disk and need to install fresh.

'Fresh' means no possibly corrupt TimeMachine, Migration Assistant, or clone restores. New OS X, programs and only vetted files returned.

Performance types swear by this method as it allows the leaving of previous junk, malware, old files etc behind. Trim and speedy.

1: Quit Disk Utility and install 10.6. from the installer disk.

Reboot, setup and use the same user name as before. (different password ok) Why?, because you can place your user files from backup right on in and your iTunes playlists, permissions etc work. Unless you don't want to use the same name, then you lose the playlists and have to recreate them, change the permissions for files.

2: Use Software Update to get up to 10.6.8 fully, repeat until clear.. This is very important to do or you'll have problems later.

3: Install Rosetta for your PowerPC based programs

Insert the Mac OS X installation disc that came with your computer or with your Mac OS X retail package.

Double-click the Optional Installs folder, and then double-click the Optional Installs package.

A package has an icon that looks like an open box.

Follow the onscreen instructions. Select the disk where you want to install Rosetta and click Continue.

Select the checkbox next to Rosetta, click Continue, and then click Install.

4: Install all third party programs from fresh original sources and compatible with 10.6.8

If by chance you get a hang upon reboot after installing third party software, hold the shift key down upon booting and update or remove the problem software, you will know, you just installed it. 🙂

If you had 10.5 previously on the machine, you'll notice your iLife is missing with the 10.6 install. This is because the 10.6.3 disk doesn't have it, only the machine specific disks do that come with the Mac when it was new.

You can either buy the 10.6 iLife from Apple or use Pacifist from CharlesSoft to extract the 10.5 versions from the 10.5 install disks. You paid for it so it's yours.

5: Once you have all your third party software installed (as best as you can of course) next is to hook up your storage drive.

Return the contents of those user files folders: Music, Pictures, Movies, Documents etc (not Library) to their respective folders in each account

Apple support doc on installing 10.6 again

Hard drive performance tip

If you installed exactly in the order as I have outlined above (1, 2,3,4), and keep your boot drive below 50% filled, it will operate at peak performance forever until it dies, or you damage it by moving it around while it's operating.

Your hard drive performance will suffer greatly the more OS X boot partition data is written on the second 50% of the drive, even if you remove some to get under 50%.

If there is any data on the second 50% of the drive, the heads have to travel there to get it, use the smaller sectors and that slows read/write performance on hard drives (SSD no need to worry).

Whatever you do, don't go past 80% filled on boot drives on Mac's as your pressing your performance and stability luck.

Problems installing?

1: Hold the power button down to hard shutdown.

2: Hold the option key and trackpad button/wired left mouse button down (wired or built in keyboard might be needed) and boot the machine.

3: The disk hopefully should pop out, if not when you get to Startup Manager, keep pressing eject on the keyboard.

4: Take some rubbing alcohol (a tiny bit) on a soft clean cloth and polish the bottom of the disk, when dry and blemish free, stick it in and when it appears, click the arrow key to boot from it.

5: Review your secure erase procedures here to make sure your not leaving data

6: Try to reinstall 10.6 again

7: If that fails, call Apple and tell them what Mac you have and see if you require MACHINE SPECIFIC Snow Leopard install disks. (10.6.4 -10.6.8) These disks also include the free iLife suite on them.

The 10.6 white retail disks sold online are 10.6.3 and won't work in your machine due to a lack of more recent hardware drivers not present on those disks also they don't contain the free iLife suite.

Apple might also have 10.6.0 - 10.6.3 machine disks as well if you need the free iLife, but they could take longer to come than the 10.6.3 white retail disk.

8: After install, just hard shutdown and it will boot to the 'Welcome' video for the next owner.

Advanced options

9: If Apple is going to take too long to send you disks or won't, there is a option to create a image of the bad disk and burn a new one on another Mac (possibly on a PC too) as a ISO image.

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Sometimes when the read and burn occurs, errors are repaired and the new image will work when the old one won't.

10: Another option is to create a Snow Leopard boot USB from the 10.6 disk, then boot and install with that.

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That's it, enjoy. 🙂

Apple has always been creative in dealing with the marketing strategies that they come up with to make a stand in the market. the release of the Mac OS X snow leopard is by far considered the best market release. This statement is adhered to by the low price release the end-users had to pay for a single user license as well as the ease of involvement involved with the use of the Mac OS X snow leopard.

The Mac OS X snow leopard didn’t house any new additional feature but was hauled with an improvement in the software framework the existing features worked on. The Snow leopard was introduced into the market for a very low price od 29$ that made the OS be downloaded almost b every end-user of a Mac.

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Overview

The Mac OS X snow leopard can be considered as the trial experiment held by apple to make an improvement in their software framework and also increase the credibility of the devices offered by Apple to the market. Apple majorly focused on the software part with this OS update merely to experiment with new software algorithms and expand the technological horizon of the operating system.

The changes made to the existing features will give you a brief idea about how Apple planned to revolutionize computing.

Mac App store

The full-scale dedicated store to download all the applications for your Macintosh system. This was released along with the Mac OS X leopard to get the response from the end-user about its practicality and when all positive reviews turned in, apple decided to go with the MacApp store with a tweak to the software frame and also improving the user interface between the user and the system.

Lesser space

Apple was very particular about reducing the amount of memory taken up by the operating system. Since the Mac OS X Snow leopard was an overhaul feature improvement update, Apple planned to keep things subtle and succeeded in keeping the bar less than 7GB compared to its ancestor the Mac OS X leopard. They mainly cut down on the space that was used up for pre-installed drivers for printers.

User Interface tweaks

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Apple also made an intelligent watch over the aesthetic details that accompanied with the update. They made sure that they made the user interface as interactive and compelling as possible to give the user a good experience while using the system. they also made sure that the tweak in the traffic light type buttons on the title bar is kept subtle and lighter to give a jump to the aesthetic detailing.

The finder application was also fully revamped from scratch and was written in Cocoa, Apple’s very own objective-oriented programming language. This gave Apple the chance to upgrade their usage as well as get the most out of cocoa as well.

The sleep and boot rate of the Mac OS X snow leopard is considered to be the best and fast in its class.

Architecture transformation

With the Mac OS X Snow leopard, the 32-bit architecture went into the dark in the history of constructing architecture for apple devices. This ensures that apple devices only worked on 64-bit resolutions. This meant that the previous apple device which could only support 32-bit were starting to rot as scrap. This move from Apple wasn’t welcome by many but as the popularity of the 64-bit architecture spread, apple sufficed through the rough patch.

Open CL

The Open Computing Language or popularly known as the Open CL is considered as the language that paved the way for improvement in the graphical user interface of the Apple devices. The precision involved in numerical processing made by the open CL ensures that the optimal use of the graphical interface was done. This also ensured that the proper load of work was put on the GPU and enabled to adapt the screen to 3-D games like a pro. The open CL is based on the open standard format that was supported by all the leading graphical processing chips of famous brand names like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, etc.

System requirements

• Mac Computer with intel processor supporting X84-64-bit architecture.
• 5GB of free hard disk space.
• 1GB minimum RAM.
• DVD drive or external USB drive.

Download Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 ISO and DMG direct file

You can download the Mac OS X Snow leopard DMG file directly from the ISO river post absolutely free of cost. Before you proceed with the download make sure that you have a significant amount of space for download or it may end up creating trash files which you will have to manually remove. The Mac OS X snow leopard is a software upgraded Operating system. If you are using a Mac system that is older than 2005, then the Snow leopard OS won’t support onto your device.

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