Problems installing OSX on new HD... Help!

Hi
I have a Macbook Pro 13'' (mid 2010), it never gave me any trouble, a week ago or so my HD died, naturally my Apple Care is gone by now and a friend told me that Hard Drive replacement wasn't all that dificult if you knew what to do, so I got a new 1tb Western Digital HD and with some help from ifixit I succesfully replaced my drive.
I don't really need Mountain Lion so I thought I could simply install the original OS that came with my mac (OSX Snow Leopard). I thought I did the hole thing correctly, I got into Disk Utilities and checked that the partition type was "GUID Patition Table" formated the new Hard Drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and then installed OSX, but after a couple of minutes it just says that the install failed and no reason why, just "click restart and try installing again".
I'm not a computer savy person I just follow instructions, you know? So now I don't know what to do and I really need this thing to work.
Thanks in advance, guys.

Hi!
Thank yoy guys! I did used the disc which shipped with my MBP. I don't really know how to do a NVRAM reset but I'll reasearch how, and let you know how it goes.
In case that doesn't work I'll return the HD and exchange it for a Hitachi, I guess, since I believe that's the one that my MBP originally had. **** it! I actally thougth the WD was a smart choice considering reliability and warranty.

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