Using bootcamp on macbook

is it posable to use bootcamp to put windows on an external hardrive and then boot up using the external hardrive
Thanks for the help

I believe bootcamp only installs to the startup volume. having said that, I suppose you could startup to an external partition, install bootcamp there, then return to your internal drive. I think.

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