Installing softwares by way of the usb bus is too voilitile to start with. Upgrading to a larger internal will provide the additional space needed for both softwares as well as having enough onhand for virtual memory by way of the required space needed for the paging file Windows creates.
If it was an extermal drive connected by eSata you would simply be connecting a drive in an external housing directly to the board giving it full time access like you would see with an internal second drive. On a laptop without replacing the internal drive and not using the limits imposed by the usb bus your other option would be adding in a second drive with an adapter to replace the optical drive already in. You know that won't be preferred until all programs are installed which means a larger primary drive to start with.
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