Windows on external drive files

I read on dualbootguru.com that with a properly reformatted windows disk, it is possible to install windows on an external drive. However, the re-formatting process of this disk is extremely complicated. Does anyone one have pre-formatted files to download to save me a few hours? Thanks.

Thanks for your help.
I opened the html but its contents are only available as a web page, so at least they're not lost (thank you!) and I can theoretically access the bookmarks.
However, accessing bookmarks this way is really impractical since I won't know if the bookmarks toolbar has the info I seek or not. This means opting to use the webpage excusively as the more complete of the two, meaning loss of the bookmarks toolbar functionality .
I want to be able to use the toolbar exclusively, which means finding a way to restore the 2yrs worth of bookmarks now missing from it due to corruption of the most recent backup json file.
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