Installing Windows on a separate partitioned hard drive?

Hi
I have updated my MacBook Pro to 10.5 with Boot Camp. I want to run Windows XP on this computer but I do not want to partition my laptop's hard drive itself. Is their a way I can use my external hard drive instead to run Windows instead of my laptop's hard drive?
Thank you!
-Emily

No, unless you have an eSATA ExpressCard which may work, or you can boot OS X from external drives and devote internal to small OS X volume and mainly Windows.

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