I will get around to that hopefully over the weekend. In the meantime I installed Qubes onto the external SSD using another machine and that worked fine. It even gives me the grub menu and starts booting on my XPS laptop now. However, a new issue surfaced. The computer restarts every time after when the startup process is on the "Disk password" prompt screen.
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