Ubiquity crashes during install

[Ric Moore]

>         I got a new hard drive and want to put a fresh install on it.
>          Unfortunately, I can't because Ubiquity crashes.  It gets to
>         the point where it says "copying new operating system files"
>         and then goes boom.  Running it on the command line shows no
>         error messages or logs that I can see either.

Check your bios to insure that virus protection is set to "off". Your
bios might think that a virus is attempting to access the boot track and
disallow that. That is easy enough to check. Ric