HT4818 Boot from laptop's Windows Hard Drive in Mac Pro via Boot Camp

I have a work laptop that is on Windows 7. It's a work hard drive so I don't want to mess with it (particularly as it's encrypted). I basically want to use it on my Mac Pro rather than my piece of junk standard issue laptop when I'm working from home.
What I would like to do is pull the drive out, put it in my Mac Pro and boot from it using Boot Camp. Guidance I've seen so far talks about not being able to use an external drive but having to partition an internal drive. However, if I've got everything on a separate drive (i.e. my laptop's drive), will this work?
Thanks!

Thanks for the quick (and no nonsense) response!

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