How do I install snow leopard on to a new blank hard drive?

I just bought a new 1TB Seagate Sata Solid State and properly installed it into my 2006 model Macbook because I was running out of space. But I can't figure out how to get snow leopard back on. I've been researching all day and I've tried partitioning the Snow Leopard installation disc and it wouldn't let and I've also tried using my 500gb external hard drive with the time machine back up but that also won't work. I'm not sure what to do and when I go to disc utility it picks up my new hard drive, so I'm pretty sure it's compatible.

Is your Snow Leopard installation disk white in color or gray?
How far did you get:
Did you get this display? ( After turning on the Macbook and inserting the Snow Leopard Disk)
Did you click on the 'Install Mac OSX'/
Did you get this display?
If you did, click on the 'UTILITIES' button in the lower left hand corner.
You then should get this display:
Click on the RESTART button in the lower right hand corner.
You then should get a menu where you can select DISK UTILITY. Select it and format the internal SSHD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in Disk Utility>Erase.
Then proceed with the installation.
In testing on my test MBP, it hung up after the restart, but I have different equipment than you have so I hope you will not experience the same issue. If you do, let me know and we will try other options.
Ciao.

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