White MacBook won't install Snow Leopard....help!

Hi,
I have 10.5.8 installed on my white MacBook (2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) computer.
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard, but during the installation, a message pops up saying "Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this computer".
Will 10.6 not work on this laptop?
Thanks!

You need to use a retail disk and not one which shipped with another Mac.
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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.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628
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Early 2008 macbook trying to install snow leopard

I'm having trouble trying to upgrade from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard install DVD 10.6.3 purchased from Apple. The upgrade is on my Macbook 4.1.
Model Name:          MacBook
Model Identifier:          MacBook4,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          800 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          MB41.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system):          1.31f1
Serial Number (system):          W8807RU50P1
Hardware UUID:          E9A18B88-B719-5148-BFC6-2A053878A80E
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
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Perhaps your disk drive is corrupted. Next time do the following:
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert Snow Leopard Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
      logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
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Hello!
I own a 13" MacBook Pro, which I bought in 2010 (I think it's the mid/late 2009 model). It came with Snow Leopard.
When Lion OS X was launched, I downloaded it, and have been using it since then. To be honest, I've not liked it at all because it's a lot slower, and I don't really like all of this resumé business. I've only kept it because with University, i've not had much time to downgrade back to Snow Leopard.
But basically, I've got the time this week, and tried to install Snow Leopard yesterday - I tried this by inserting my original disks which came with my MacBook Pro, restarting the Mac, then pressing Option (Alt) to bring up the start-up disk stuff, and wiping the hardrive.
Yet, after wiping the hardrive, after asking it to start the Snow Leopard disc as the start-up disk, it wouldn't. The Apple logo loaded, the little loading wheel thing underneath it did, and it just stayed like that for ages - you could hear the disk spinning, then after about 5-10 minutes, the screen went black and I had to turn the laptop off.
It kept doing this so because I wiped the hardrive, my only option was to go to the Recovery disk and re-install Lion.
I'm thinking there could be a problem with the disc drive, but it works fine if i'm burning CDs/DVDs, or install software and that. So what is it that's wrong? Am I doing something that's wrong?
There's nothing wrong with the MacBook Pro discs because when I put them in the laptop when I've got Lion, it loads and asks if I wish to install Snow Leopard - of course though, it won't let me.
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I'm using a Lenevo external disk drive becuase the one in the side of my computer is broken somehow and you cannot get disks in without forcing them.
Theres 36 Gb Available out of 90 Gb, could my hard drive simply be too old?
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Phelian wrote:
I bought my MacBook Pro with leopard and later upgraded to SnowLeopard. So I have a Leopard disk and a Snow Leopard disk. I want to completely re-install the system to start fresh, with a time machine backup,
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I have an imac desktop running 10.5.8. 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2674
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