Has ANYONE managed to install Vista under Boot Camp on a second drive?

As I understand it Vista cannot be installed on secondary drive because of the "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for install" error message when selecting the install location because it needs a Primary Drive.
In the Microsoft Knowledge Base they recommend removing the primary drive to overcome this but I tried and it failed.
Do I HAVE to go out and buy XP (which allows installs on secondary drives) and then upgrade to Vista.
I'm so darn frustrated with this issue I wondered if anyone has managed to do this successfully.
Thanks
Aln

No problems here. I have Vista 64 Ultimate running on a different internal drive, and I didnt remove my primary OSX drive to do this. In fact it worked without a hitch. There must be something you are doing wrong in the bootcamp preparation phase.

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Quote from: SpencerSteel on 18-September-06, 01:49:59
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