Can't install Snow Leopard to new HDD

Hi, Im having some issues with my new hard drive. I have a late 2006 iMac Model A1207 that had a 250GB WD2500JS hard drive that was failing. What I mean by that is I had several times where I could hear the drive clicking inside and only after several attempts would it boot up. I was able to backup the system to an external drive via Time Machine. So I bought a WD5000AAKX 500GB which Ive installed. I do have the original Mac Snow Leopard disc and I did follow instructions on here on how to properly partition the drive so that it can see it. The disk verify checks out properly and Ive tried two way to boot it with no luck. Ive tried booting the disc and running it on that drive to which it panics, crashes and restarts. Trying to restore the backup to the new drive gets a little further but ultimately asks me to restart and start over. Any ideas? Im guessing that the drive just somehow is not compatible. :-/

I returned the 500GB HD and bought a working hard drive of the same model of the one that was failing. Only way I was able to get my old harddrive data onto the new one was place it in an external enclosure and it was able to restore from the restore feature in disk utility. Unfortunately even though that hard drive boots like the old one, there are still panic shutdowns. Here is a report below. HDD just not compatible or iMac no good anymore?
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 931747 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          4
Fri Oct 18 20:46:45 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x00260d39, type 6=invalid opcode, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x428fb000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x8504c001, EBX: 0x41c4c000, ECX: 0x01bcd600, EDX: 0x01bcd600
CR2: 0x428fb000, EBP: 0x482239e8, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x017b6ebc
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x00260d39, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x075e0010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
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0x48223728 : 0x2abf6a (0x59e3d0 0x260d39 0x6 0x59e51b)
0x48223808 : 0x2a1a78 (0x48223820 0x85d6c0 0x482239e8 0x260d39)
0x48223818 : 0x260d39 (0xe 0x48 0x48220010 0x2a0010)
0x482239e8 : 0x261b4b (0x41c4d000 0x0 0x1 0x0)
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0x48223a68 : 0x30185a (0x17b6ebc 0x41c4c000 0x1c0 0x0)
0x48223b38 : 0x302001 (0x0 0x0 0x200 0x0)
0x48223b88 : 0x43d9ab (0x5c39f00 0x5a8dbc0 0x0 0x5a8d804)
0x48223bb8 : 0x4443a9 (0x5a8d804 0x1 0x790a4f8 0x0)
0x48223cc8 : 0x422453 (0x790e8dc 0x0 0x790a4a0 0x48223d08)
0x48223da8 : 0x2fe8b1 (0x48223dc0 0x246 0x48223de8 0x2ff05a)
0x48223de8 : 0x2e0c92 (0x790e8dc 0x74e0e14 0x0 0x0)
0x48223e08 : 0x2e0d02 (0x790e8dc 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x48223e28 : 0x2f5005 (0x790e8dc 0x5 0x48223ed8 0x74e0d10)
0x48223e88 : 0x473bb7 (0x5cb6ea0 0x48223ed8 0x2 0x48223ec0)
0x48223ef8 : 0x475968 (0x620f450 0x5cb6ea0 0x62752a0 0x790e8dc)
0x48223f38 : 0x475a39 (0x0 0x10 0x48223f5c 0x1)
0x48223f78 : 0x4f82fb (0x62752a0 0x7099288 0x74e0d54 0x0)
0x48223fc8 : 0x2a251d (0x7099284 0x7fff 0x10 0x7099284)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Safari
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac5,1 (Mac-F4228EC8)
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1. Create a new partition on the hard drive.
2. Get a clone of a 10.6.8 Snow Leopard system. Put the cloned Snow Leopard
        system onto the new partition.
Step One: Create a new partition on the hard drive
To resize the drive and create a new partition do the following:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
               COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart
               the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until
               the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the
               downward pointing arrow button.
          After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3.           In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4.           Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Step Two: Obtain a clone of a Snow Leopard system:
You will need access to a Mac already running Snow Leopard. You will need a 16 GB USB flash drive or an external hard drive to which you can clone the Snow Leopard system from the Mac that has Snow Leopard installed. Alternatives are:
Option One:
Install a new Snow Leopard system onto a USB flash drive. Boot the Mac used for installing with the USB flash drive. Update the flash drive system to 10.6.8 using the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard. Verify that you can boot the Mac with the USB flash drive.
Take the USB flash drive to your new Mac and try booting from it. If it works then clone the system from the flash drive to the newly made partition:
          Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
      entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new partition on the internal drive. Source means the USB
flash drive.
Option Two:
If you have a large enough external drive you can erase and use, then it would be easier to just clone the entire Snow Leopard system from the source Mac computer to the external drive.
          Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
      entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external drive. Source means the Snow Leopard Mac's
internal drive.
After cloning verify that it will boot the source Mac. If so then take the external drive to your new Mac boot with it. If all is well then restore the clone to the new partition on your new Mac:
          Restore the clone using Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination
      entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new partition on the internal drive. Source means the external drive.
You will need a retail copy of Snow Leopard. If you need to purchase Snow Leopard contact Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service. The price is $29.00 plus tax. You will receive physical media - DVD - by mail.

Had to get new hard disk for my macbook. After installing snow leopard on new HD the computer only connects to free wifi at certain places and not others. Took it to genius bar (of course it worked find there!) they said it was fine. Not!

Had to get new hard disk for my macbook. After installing snow leopard on new HD the computer only connects to free wifi at certain places and not others. Took it to genius bar (of course it worked find there!) they said it was fine. But problem persist.

Hi there ricalimo,
I would recommend taking a look at the troubleshooting steps in the article below. If the issue is location specific, than you may want to save the article so you can perform troubleshooting when you are experiencing trouble.
Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
-Griff W.

I can't install Snow leopard on my hard disk which has 10.4.11 on and lots of space.

I can't install Snow leopard on my hard disk which has 10.4.11 on it and lots of space, I run the snow Leopard install disk and it says it cant be installed on my hard disk, which has 160 GB of space.

Which iMac? If it's a G5, the highest OS you can run is Leopard. Are you using the full retail copy of Snow, or a grey, machine specific disc from another computer? If it's the latter, that's the reason.
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