Hard Drive that will work with XP

I have been looking at the reviews of hard drives, and many of them have reports from people saying that they can't use it with XP. I have Windows 7 Pro on my current hard drive, and need to run the Virtual XP mode for work, and it's just not working out very well due to the multiple applications that I have to run. I read that if I was to install a second hard drive, and install XP on it, that I could set it up so that when I boot up my PC, it will ask me which OS I want to use, or which drive.

Can anyone reccomend a hard drive, internal or external, that would be capable of running XP on it? I need a SATA II with at least 250GB on it. My PC is a Gateway DX4831/Intel Core I5/3.2GHz/8GB RAM/64 bit.

Thanks!