Cannot remove second virtual DISK from Win 8.1

[Martin]

From the review of a similar Acer system:
"The 32 GB Hynix (HGB4E) flash drive is the clear bottleneck of the system as far as storage is concerned. As shipped, the system only has 10 GB of free space and the recovery partition needs another few GB."
So the guess above about the combination of a (too) small flash drive + (2nd) harddisk seems to be right.

[Asus User]

Device manager as requested, cheers.

[scottgus1]

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Thar she blows! Two disk drives.
hgst hts 545050a7e680

[scottgus1]

If the Hynix, being an eMMC according to this Asus website is unremovable, you can clone the data on the Hynix to the 500GB drive and have more space, or get an SSD with desired free space in place of the 500GB and clone the Hynix to that new SSD.

At some point someone put the 500GB drive in your laptop and you finally discovered it while trying to run Virtualbox. Virtualbox does not magically generate hard drives in your PC, of course .

[Asus User]

Thanks for your help everyone. I had no idea about the twin drive setup, it was sold to us as a 500GB HD! Now in the process of determining how best to cope with the small boot drive. Thanks again.