Help Factory Resetting OS X 10.6.8

Yes. But why? That will not install Snow Leopard for you. If you are selling or giving it away, you cannot include the Mountain Lion software you will have just purchased.

If your computer is compatible with ML, http://www.apple.com/osx/specs you can download ML for $20. Then do the install.

However, to factory restore you have to the SL disk as the ML installation is not factory condition for your Mac. If your goal is to sell it, the ML license agreement says you cannot sell the Mac with your copy of ML installed as it is tied to your Apple ID.

If you need the SL install disk for your machine you can call Apple support and they will send a disk for a small fee, around $20.

Consider this, then:

Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer

1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/

Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button.

Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move

the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You

must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes

installing.

2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:

a. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.

b. After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left

side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.

c. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one.

Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the

partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until

the process has completed.

d. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side

list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.

e. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the

button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.

f. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash

drive size.

3. Use Lion DiskMaker 2.0 to put your installer clone onto the USB flash drive.

Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.

Once you have a bootable flash drive installer, boot from it then you can erase your internal hard drive and install Mountain Lion on a freshly formatted disk.