Move Windows 7 boot disk to a new mac

Hi,
I am just in the middle of moving from a mac pro to a new iMac and need to move my windows 7 os as well.
On the mac pro I have windows 7 on it's own 500gb sata drive and was wondering if I can just move this out and boot from it using a Sata cradle such as the voyager q with fw800 from the new iMac?
I'm guessing there will be some driver issues to resolve, but can anyone else see a problem with what I want to do?
Thanks max

Your "can't be cloned or moved" always caught me as not quite true though.
"Can't do that" may, or may not, even be true. And we all get tired of the same Q&A over and over but "Why can't I?" and playing "20 Questions"
Yes you can, but no you should not, as one possible answer.
And you can even with Boot Camp single partition change it to whatever letter you want.
Too simplistic with the "Can't" for my taste.
Newer kit of course isn't supported. Doesn't connect to a bootable controller or interface as far as Windows is concerned.  You have to use internal SATA, even if that means removing the optical SATA drive.

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