The problems I had were centred around using a 64GB OCZ Solid State SATA drive. The installer would hang most of the time and when it did finally make it to the disk partitioning stage it couldn't see the hard disk.
Enter into the motherboard BIOS and change the following options:
Under Main / Storage Configuration change "Configure SATA as ..." to AHCI. This will fix linux not being able to see the SATA drive.