Will my external hard drive be recognized on the Windows side of my Mac?

I have a 2009 white Macbook 13-inch running Leopard and fairly recently used Boot Camp to install Windows 7. Unfortunately I made the Windows side too small and I am now considering using an external hard drive to download all of my files I need for work. I have a few questions...
1) Is this a possible solution to my problem of no space on my Windows hard drive? and
2) I read something about my computer not having HFS read support since I didn't upgrade to Snow Leopard or install the Bootcamp driver upgrades (because it is my understanding they require SL). Will my external hard drive even be recognized by Windows? If not, can I upgrade to SL now and install the Boot Camp drivers before I try to use my external hard drive?
I just really want to do things right this time, since I'm already screwed with the partition size (there is NO WAY I am restoring the partition and reinstalling Windows 7) and I had a lot of hassles with Windows software when I first attempted Boot Camp. Any help would be great! Thank you very much.

Hey there Natasha1608,
It sounds like you need to transfer your library that is on your phone to your computer, and point iTunes to your other iTunes library. For the first, you can transfer your iTunes Store purchases to your library with the following article:
iTunes Store: Transfer purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Keep this in mind from the above article:
This feature works only for audio, video, and apps that you purchased from the iTunes Store. Any items that you imported from audio CDs or acquired from other sources won't copy from your device to the iTunes library. However, copies of all PDFs and books from your device's iBooks app will transfer to the computer, regardless of whether they were purchased from the iBooks Store. Learn more about transferring media to your iTunes library.
To point iTunes to another library, use this article:
iTunes: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1589
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

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