Installing Windows XP on 2nd HDD

I tried searching and reading prior post, but could not find an answer, so any one with knowledge, please help.
Question #1: I want to install Windows XP on a 2nd internal HDD, to keep it separate from the HDD that has OS X. Do I use BootCamp (BC), and during some point of the installation, BC will ask which drive I want to use for Windows XP? If not, how do I install Windows XP onto a separate HDD?
Question #2: Since my PC uses a different style of HDD than the Mac Pro, if I pull the HDD from my PC that has Windows XP set up on it and using an external HDD enclosure to run the drive, can I connect it (firewire) to my Mac Pro and simple copy the contents to the 2nd internal HDD? Will I then be able to boot from either OS at start-up?
Bruce

Print out the PDF that comes with BootCamp Assistant.
The drive needs to be formatted as GUID first if you want to use only half or part of it. If you choose MRB, then the whole drive gets used. Though you could just format as two FAT partitions and go from there.
BootCamp fully supports installing on 2nd hdd.
Copy? as in using Norton Ghost or similar program. But Windows can't be booted from any form of external hdd, not normally or easily.

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