Can you use a hard drive to run bootcamp off it and also use it as a time capsule?

Hello,
i'm running out of space on my macbook air, so i was woundering if i could buy a portable hard drvie and use it for storage as well as to run bootcamp off it and use windows 8. But then will I be able to also use it as general storage?

lauren_gibb wrote:
and also use it as a time capsule?
You mean Time Machine.. Yes, you can use an external drive for TM.. but you cannot use TM to backup the Windows partition. Use a windows software for that. You can use TM to a partition on the external drive for backup of the internal drive of the Air.
The partition has to be formatted HFS+ to work.
And it should be separate to the main partition you are using to boot to win8.. although I am not sure of all the details of that. As I have lots of windows computers around me do never dual boot a machine.

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