Am I able to boot off of a drive without OS?

My Hackintosh works, but I’m using an external drive and the second I boot into windows without the drive plugged in, as I don’t always have the HDD plugged into my laptop, the bios boot option disappears, and I have to boot clover with the USB, add the boot option, and it stays until I boot without the drive. It occurred to me that it’s looking for clover all the time but clover is not there when unplugged so it’s deleted, and my system has an internal SSD and HDD, the latter used at storage while windows is on the SSD. Am I able to somehow make an EFI folder for my HDD without installing an OS, and boot clover from that drive?

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