I would use a new HDD or SSD and install Snow Leopard clean on that first.
This means that every time a file is read, a write is made on the file-system to record this action. My 2006 intel iMac with Mac OS X 10.6 graphics chip died can i use the hard drive with the installation in a hackintosh. To create a Clean Install (formerly known as Erase & Install) of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, follow one of the following guides: Short version: Clean Install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Long version: Mac OS X v10. It is usual for UNIX file-systems to record the last access time of every file. In this guide, we will look at some of the installation problems that tend to occur with new releases of the Mac operating system. I post this information as I have done a clean installation of 10.6.8 on my new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD in my Core i7 hackintosh. The following tweak was performed on both original and hackintosh machines running Snow Leopard, irrespective of the model of SSD drive used. I purchased an OWC Data Doubler for my Late 2011 15' MacBookPro and I would like to do a clean install of El Capitan onto the new SSD drive when it comes out at the end of the month. Although most power-users might be aware of this, I would like to remind SSD owners in Mac computers (original or hackintoshes) that a small tweak as published last year by Ricardo Gameiro is a little extra to improve the performance of SSD drives of the system. Hi I searched clean install and found some useful information, but the threads are archived and I had a few more questions.