Ad a drive already containing Win7 to Mac Pro

Hello,
i would like to "merge" a windows 7 PC with my Mac Pro.
Since the Mac Pro has 4 drive bays, i can place the HDD from my windows machine in the Mac Pro very easy
I can install Boot Camp.
But i dont want to install Win7 again and use the already installed and running Win7.
Is this possible?
Maybe a brute force method:
If i just ad the drive without installing bootcamp
and boot using the option key can i select the Win7 drive?
Will this work ?
Thanks in advance

If it came from different motherboard and platform you will have to scrub the OS and re-activate, assuming it is retail version and can be moved.
There are utilities to sanitize or scrub but I have not used any, most are Windows platform but I have seen people post here that they did. Hint: search if possible with Google moving Windows from PC to Mac.
And while you might be able to option boot, it may not show up in Startup Disk in OS X, and you will want some of the Apple drivers, may need to uninstall graphic driver it had first too.

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