Vista wants the first however while XP will easily go onto a second primary. That's one thing to be aware of about the new version of Windows. If it detects an existing installation on the first it will refuse the second. At some point I'll try again with only seeing an empty first primary to see if I can get it to go on the second.
One thing about reinstalling XP when two drives are plugged in with Vista on the first drive on the system to know is that the installer will goof Vista up a little when going to install or reinstall XP on a second drive. All versions look for the first drive to place boot information there regardless of where the Windows files are going.
If you have Vista on the first like adding a second drive in later make sure to unplug that first or you will have to boot up with the Vista installation disk in order to use the automatic fix startup problems tool. There's no more recovery console seen for manually using the "Fixboot" and "Fixmbr" commands in order to see the new boot information written there.
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