Upgrading hard drive, will Snow Leopard CD work? (HELP!)

[AdventurousJosh]

Hey guys,

I'm upgrading my mac's hard drive to 500 GB today, but realized the only CD's I have is the CD for Snow Leopard, will this work for installing the OS? I have my data itself backed up on time machine.

Also, are there CD keys for snow leopard? because I cant seem to find it, and cant remember if there is or not.


Thanks lots!!




Josh

 

[NickZac]

Is the Snow Leopard CD the one that came with the computer when you got it? When I upgraded my hard drive, I did a cold install using that CD, downloaded every OS X update as obviously the CD isnt completely current, and then used the Migration Assistant for everything else and it all worked pretty well.

 

[alust2013]

That will work fine, just boot from the disk, then format the new hard drive to HFS+, then attach your time machine and restore.