How to go into recovery mode with Snow Leopard?

OS X Recovery includes a built in set of utilities as part of the Recovery System. You can use OS X Recovery to do the following: * Restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup. * Verify and repair connected drives using Disk Utility. read more

Some Macs that came with OS X Snow Leopard can use Internet Recovery after installing OS X Lion or later and a software update. Requirements for reinstalling OS X using Recovery Reinstalling OS X using Recovery requires broadband access to the Internet using a Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection. read more

Recovery Mode is possible thanks to the installation of a hidden recovery partition on your Mac’s hard drive, and allows the user to perform the aforementioned tasks without needing an OS X DVD or USB installer. To perform recovery tasks on older versions of OS X, such as OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, users needed to boot from the install DVD. read more

10.6.8 is snow leopard. You can buy a Snow Leopard disk from Amazon for $20 but otherwise you will just have to roll the dice on finding a Snow Leopard .ISO/DMG online that you can burn to a Dual-Layer DVD as an install disk. read more