I just bought a new hard drive and attached it to my Windows 7 machine to format it (NTFS) and create a single, primary partition.

Then I put it into the machine I want to install Ubuntu on and ran the set-up from USB.

I get through to the point of chosing the storage location, then the install errors out, saying that it has unexpectly stopped. On the screen it lists only "dev/sda" but no volumes are displayed. If I click any button on this screen (other than "Back" or "Cancel" the error appears. After I send in the error report, the screen drops to a console display that accepts no input.

Do I need to reformat the drive as something other than NTFS? Or do I need to set up a different kind of partition, or remove the partition? I'm just not sure what the initial state of the hard drive should be in order for Ubuntu to install to it.

Thanks