I received a 64GB Kingston Solid-State Drive for this year’s Christmas gift (Kingston SSDNOW V SERIES). Given that the old Macbook that I used for exercising has been having a hard drive issue lately, I decided to replace it with this new SSD. However, I encountered an issue.

Problem: Clean install of Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 shows the following error message:

Install Failed The installer could not copy the necessary support files

Information / History: The Macbook model number is A1181. The install DVD is 22691-6558-A. Upgraded the memory to a single PNY 2GB DDR2 SODIMM two months ago.

Solution: Replaced the SODIMM with the ones that originally came with Macbook which were 2 pieces of NANYA 512MB PC2-5300 SODIMM.

Update: Memory test failed on PNY 2GB DDR2 SODIMM which I purchased two months ago at Fry’s at discounted price. A lesson learned to always do memory test on a newly purchased DDR. Same goes with HDD.