HP Stream 8 tablet cant see external & internal drives at same time

I have an HP Stream 8 tablet. I have plugged an OTG 64gb flash memory card Sandisk Dual USB drive into the tablet charging slot. The Tablet recognises all of the 64gb of storage & can read & write to the drive with no problems.
However, when an external storage drive is plugged in, the device cannot see the 32gb sandisc micro usb , which I installed . The tablet only seems to be able to see 1 removable drive at one time, which is frustrating as I cant then copy items from the micro sd to an external drive.
Is there a way to make windows/hp stream tablet see all drives at the same time. I have insufficient space on the built in 32gb drive , after win 8.1, office 365 & other programmes are installed so I can't copy items onto that drive.
When the external flash is connected, I can only see the C: Drive & the plugged in flash drive. When the external flash drive is disconnected, I can then see the c: Drive & the microsd32gb card.
One of the problems I think is that the tablet doesnt seem to always assign drive letters to extra storage drives. How do I activate this?

It's something to do with the OTG 64gb flash memory card Sandisk Dual USB drive. Mine sees an internal 64GB uSD & a flash drive connected with an OTG cable. Drive letter asssignment is a Windows thing. You can customize it with USBDLM.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

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I understand you're looking for information on using an external CD drive on your Stream 7 tablet.
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