Visibility of blank hard drives

Hello Forums,
we have another issue with our WAP. Some hard drives are not visible in the Tenant Portal and I dont get why.
For example: I prepared 2 dynamically expandable VHDx files which only differ in their maximum size.
They are in the same folder in the hard drive.
They have the same properties in VMM, only 50 is replaced with 100 in name and Family obviously.
Now in the tenant portal, only 1 of them is visible at a time. When I enable the 100 GB disk, the 50 GB disk is not visible any more. As soon as I just disable the 100 GB hard disk, the smaller one is visible again o_0
Strange thing is that the Windows Server Datacenter disk is always there!
Can anyone please explain to me how I get more than 2 disks visible? Yes technically a 1GB disk would be enough as the customer can expand it himself, but still I need to figure out the mechanics behind this.
Thank you very much!

Make a new empty disk instead of copying it. Looks like some ID(property) is copied as well.
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