Installing a second harddrive that has Windows on it already..Does it work?

Today I attempted to make a Windows partition using Bootcamp but then found out that my Windows XP disc was scratched to ** and doesn't work. But then I realized that I had a 120gig sata drive from my previous PC that already has WinXP SP2 as its OS. I called Apple today but they were unable to give me any help...
So I plugged in the Windows harddrive into my Mac and it booted to Windows just fine (and Windows was going crazy finding new hardware and what not.) However, I was unable to get my old usb mouse to work and inevitably couldn't do anything except shut it down and boot back up from the Mac OS drive.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can make this work? Perhaps by copying drivers or something from my mac drive to the windows drive? The only other option I can think of is purchasing a new Windows disc and making a partition through Bootcamp, which I'd rather not do if I can get this Windows OS drive to work.
Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks

Well I think I got it working. I tried installing Bootcamp from the DVD while my harddrive was connected to my PC but that failed (I think a few of the drivers were installed). Then I connected it to my Mac and booted up Windows in Safe Mode. I waited a number of minutes and then my usb mouse decided to work. I couldn't run the Bootcamp setup while in safe mode, so I booted Windows back up normally. I put in the Leopard/bootcamp disk and ran the set up and everything installed smoothly. Right now all the drivers (video, ethernet, etc.) seem to be working just fine. I'm currently in the middle of the Bootcamp 2.1 upgrade, but I think all is well now.
Thanks a lot for the reply and suggestions

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