Eventually I figured out what happened.

I have two hard drives, sda and sdb and decided to install Ubuntu on
sdb.

There was a single partition on sda, named sda2, where Windows lives.
Some time ago I had two partitions, sda1 and sda2, then I removed sda1.

Installation process went wrong on "Migrate settings from Windows" or on
"Intall Grub" phase. Ubuntu installer was trying to access /dev/sda1,
which doesn't exist.

It looks like installer assumes that if you have Windows on the second
drive, then the Windows lives on /dev/sda1 partition, and that is not
always true, because the user may have re-partitioned the hard drive.

I could fix the problem by re-creating partitions table for /dev/sda,
then I  installed Windows on /dev/sda1. After that I ran Ubuntu
installer and installed Ubuntu on my second hard drive without any
problems.

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