If they tell you hard drive upgrade is needed, make sure to request old hard drive if you still need to get data off of it

The upgrade is worth the money, but shortly after installation the updates make it impossible to reinstall the system software without erasing the hard drive first

True, it does take less space on the hard drive, and it does everything that it advertises.

My leopard was running fine on my mac, but I thought it would be nice to upgrade and save hard drive space and a boost of speed

I only had 30GB left on a 1 TB hard drive.

Thus, I have an additional 7-8 GB on my hard drive that I can use for pictures and music

I've since determined that the issues I was having are due to a faulty DVD drive, which I worked around

The customer service people were helpful but they couldn't understand how pictures stored on an external hard drive using iphoto were missing & scheduled me for an appointment at the Apple store this coming Monday.

was it freed up more than 20GB of space on my hard drive - way more than they said it would (which is a premium when I'm only at 111GB [120GB]) - but it was solely due to the upgrade!The improved stacks feature is nice - though I can't find a way to make the icons in them small again.

my hard drive broke and i

I have been running Tiger (v10.4) that originally came on my MacBook because I thought updating the OS would be a pain and require me to erase the hard drive

I am a bit of a tinkerer and needed to upgrade my main hard drive in my late 2008 Mac Mini from the paltry 150GB to 1TB

By the way, if you do install it, make sure you have a Time Capsule back-up before you do (buy a cheap external hard drive if you have to) but it could save you a major hassle (of which I personally know).

My friend had problems with his plastic MacBook; it seems his hard drive had errors when he tried to install

I had a hard drive issue with my Macbook 2008 A1181

Had to upgrade RAM, then Mac store talked me into upgrading hard drive, claiming they couldn't do upgrade without

Clean up your hard drive first

The hard drive on my 2008 MacBook Pro crapped out so after getting a new hard drive I had to get Snow

Not much difference other than more hard drive space

Clean up some old files and free up space on the hard drive -- always a nice thing since I seem to be constantly running out of space.

For the short duration of Snow Leopard as the operating system on my MacBook, I noticed that the hard drive was able to provide more room for data storage following the installation of Snow Leopard, which appeared to increase the speed with which my computer operated

Software venders who have not rewrite applications in Cocoa are the ones causing the biggest headaches.(like drives in Vista, but to lesser degree)In my particular case it has rendered a writing tablet and logitech mouse unusable because I can't launch the configuration

The OS if faster and smaller (I got about 12GB back on my hard drive just by upgrading--when's the last time that happened).

I did regain like 2 or 3 gigabytes of hard drive space, so something must be different

If you have VMware and a windows virtual machine, well when you install snow leopard your windows partition disappears along with all of your windows virtual hard drive

Used this to restart my 2009 iMac after the hard drive crashed and had to be replaced.

I always recommending a complete Hard Drive and Partition

My hard drive all of a sudden is now over 8GB bigger than it was when I had Leopard

Based on my experience, I gained nothing but a few gigs of free space on my hard drive, and lost plenty of important apps and data

Have you ever bought, say, a 500GB hard drive and been disappointed to see that it only has something like 447 gigabytes

The "transformation" into a fast pouncing Snow Leopard gave me an additional 11GB space on my hard drive..not to mention the tremendous jump in processing speed of various

So you'll actually see a 500GB hard drive

The install took a little while, but when it finished I had an extra 70Gigs of free space on my hard-drive.

Had to buy this when my hard drive crashed, and as I lost my original disk, need this to reboot.

so it saved space on my HArd drive also

The fact that it has a smaller foot print - some boast you will get up to 7 to 8 gigabytes of your hard drive back - is a great feature

From the initial installation, you will notice that your Mac is snappier - and if you look at the space on your hard drive, you'll see that installing Snow Leopard has freed up more than a few gigabytes of space.

Your hard drive suddenly seems to have more gigabytes of maximum capacity, because 1 GB = 1000 MB, instead of 1024 MB in previous systems

Then, told me upgraded hard drive wouldn't allow transfer of data

My only option was to erase my hard drive completely, reinstall OS 10.5.8, and try to restore as many files and preferences as I could from "Time Machine" backups to my backup hard drive

At first, I couldn't install because I didn't have enough space on the hard drive for Snow Leopard because of the presence of Leopard

My LaCie external floppy drive works too

Wrote Zeros (0) to the Hard Drive for a Clean Install

That is a gain of 24.6GB of hard drive space

One thing I was hoping for with this release was more hard drive space as Apple claims you get to reclaim about 7GB

It crashed the whole thing and corrupted the hard drive.

and I used to have backups constantly through the network with an airport extreme with a hard drive connected to the extreme.

I reformatted my hard drive and went back to version 10.5.8.

An upgrade to Snow Leopard for $25 can't be beat because it will install fine on an empty (just formatted) hard drive

This restored it back into order after I installed it on a new hard drive

My wife's MACBOOK (2,1) lost its hard drive and it needed a serious upgrade.

So be prepared to see different size for your stuff, for example I have about 59-60GB of music, but Snow Leopard shows it as about 64GB, same with my external hard drive, it shows 60GB instead of about 55GB

my hard drive broke and i

( I have a smaller solid state drive ) are very useful.

when i returned from a trip, i noticed my 2 external hard drives weren't on the desktop.

If you are looking to regain 7GB or more hard drive space, please heed my warning

Hard drive companies have always defined a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes, but most operating systems have defined it as 1,073,741,824 bytes

I kept this CD; I replaced a hard drive in an older Macbook Pro and could not remote-install the OS, had to start with local install

Windows 7 required addition RAM and hard drive space, MacOS less of each

& anyway if worse comes to worse my pictures (mostly of my Son from a baby until 12) are stored on one of my 2 external hard drives & my ipod.

I reformatted the hard drive and went through the entire procedure again with the same result.

The hard drive that came with it was damaged beyond repairs, and I had no time machine backups to use

However, years ago hard drive manufacturers wanted to make their disks look bigger, so they used deceptive advertising by redefining a gigabyte as 10^9 instead of 2^30

I always recommending a complete Hard Drive and Partition

It has made my MacbookPro so much faster, saved up 10GB of hard drive space, is easier to organize and view files, and just all around sexy

I just wanted to say that I have regained 15gb of hard drive space and my printer now works better than when it was connected to OS X 10.5

Last night I threw in the towel and reverted back to Leopard (this is why you MUST create a cloned copy of your hard drive before you upgrade (use Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner and create a bootable drive (and test it

My hard drive failed and I needed to install software so that I could then upgrade to newest OS

so I decided to install a 500 Gigabyte solid-state drive

This will not do that without reformatting your hard drive

my new hard drive works greatcheaper than a new computer!

Log on in Safe mode (hit the shift key as soon as you hear the chord on startup), empty the caches in the hard drive library, the user library, and the system library

Clean up your hard drive first

The other visible improvment is the available space in your hard drive

So instead of trying to see what I had available compared to what I have now, I took down ALL the information, including total hard drive space

It frees up a bunch of space on your hard drive for one

This work required installing a new hard drive

You go to "Finder", and it tells you your account (typically named after you unless you choose otherwise), your hard drive, a folder with every image on your computer (will get filled up if you allow cookies), every movie, song, program.....everything.

The OS is now very graceful handling network drives that disappear, which occurs when you are connected via a wireless network and moving from room to room

So I started looking, found the hard drive which had my pics, looked inside & nothing.

Simply do your homework on how to back up an image of your old system to an external hard drive so that the installation can easily moves your old files to your new OS.

However, the speed boost and freeing up of hard drive space are nice

I couldn't actually use it because my computer hard drive was full, but that isn't anyone's fault but mine, it was brand new and factory sealed as advertised

But if you have important pictures save them all on an external hard drive & disconnect it from your Mac

My leopard was running fine on my mac, but I thought it would be nice to upgrade and save hard drive space and a boost of speed

It did free up several gigs of hard drive

I checked my available drive space before installation and had 211.3GB available

When I purchased Snow Leopard, I was led by service people at my local Apple store and by reviewers , such as David Pogue, to expect not to many bells and whistles, but a huge reduction in hard drive space to do the same good job that Mac OS has always done.

The best thing about Snow Leopard is the hard drive space gained from the installation.

I installed Snow Leopard as a precursor to a hard drive change out on my MacBook (250 Gig to 750 Gig

Even though the CPUs, hard drives, graphics chips, etc. are completely different, OS X just plugs along as if nothing was any different on the second machine.

I have two macs backed up with time machine to the same hard drive connected to an airport extreme base station

On the plus side the OS takes up A LOT less space on the hard drive

Before my hard drive went out on

The new Snow Leopard is much faster, and freed up over 7 gigs of hard drive space

There is no way I am aware of to reinstall the older version of the software without completely erasing everything on the hard drive

What that means is that you will see a large increase in hard drive space because the memory has been calculated differently than before your upgrade

It is extremely easy and fool proof to installThe upgrade leaves you with more hard drive space and a faster computer

So there was a 9GB increase in my available hard drive space.

, I had backed up my hard drive, so I decided to do a clean install

I ordered a hard drive that I was goin to install the OS on and it has already arrived even though I ordered it a day after my order from Amazon and picked standard shipping

It is misleading people who are upgrading into thinking they just claimed a bunch of hard drive space back when it isn't so

Nice that it frees up gigs of space on my hard drive.

Printer drivers are downloaded from the net and only those for printers you actually use -- a great drive space saver

I don't think my results are typical but, after hearing of several people saving a great deal of hard drive space after installing Snow Leopard, I decided to give it a try

FALSE.If you bought an extra 20+ GB of physical hard drive storage, you'd pay more than thirty bucks for it.

After a few hours of backing up the files I wanted to keep on an external drive and erasing the partitions, my MacBook was finally reborn

And in all that time, I never had a problem importing my old sticky data after upgrading OS's or switching to new hard drives or under any other circumstances

When I upgraded from TIGER to Leopard X, the upgrade that was recommended essentially wiped my hard drive clean so after installation was complete, I had to reinstall my OFFICE for MAC and other programs

Snow Leopard was a snap to install and it takes up less precious space on my hard drive

When I upgraded from TIGER to Leopard X, the upgrade that was recommended essentially wiped my hard drive clean so after installation was complete, I had to reinstall my OFFICE for MAC and other programs

Too big for my hard drive

It went off without a hitch and gave me back like 3-4 Gigs of hard drive

One of the great things about OS X is that you can clone a hard drive from one Mac to another completely different type of Mac -- in my case, from an 8-core Mac Pro tower

I had my macbook with leopard and upgraded to snow leopard, my recommendation is to back up first and erase the hard drive to have a clean installation, of course later you will have to install all yours applications but it worth all the trouble

Otherwise, DON'T. I can still use my old laptop, but it is very glitchy now, even since an entire hard-drive wipe

and I had 19.6GB more hard drive space after the install.

I did get the hard drive replaced.

So there was a 9GB increase in my available hard drive space.

I wanted to downgrade my mac, so i used it to erase my hard drive and install it

The installation process is fast and smooth with the new OS taking up appreciably less space on your hard drive

The dock used to allow you to drag the hard drive icon to the dock and when you clicked and held on it you were previously able to browse through the entire hard drive in a menu system and choose any file or folder

Haven't used yet as hard drive was bad and just got new one

Snow Leopard changes this; the stock hard drive in my MacBook now has 250.06 gigabytes of total size, and more free space than it had previously

Following the install my hard drive numbers read as

I added the external drive back, no problem.

It doesn't boast a whole lot of new stuff to it, but I like the new features it does have, and I love the fact that it takes up so much less hard drive space on my

Period!Replaced hard drive in Macbook and upgraded from Tiger

You will have saved a good 10gb of storage on your hard drive

I got about 20 GB of space freed up on my hard drive