I have a hybrid hard drive (500 GB HDD + 24 GB SSD). The Win 8.1 preview edition which I upgraded to from Win 8 have messed up my computer. It started to run to slowly and hang 70% of the time on restarting or Shutting down. I deleted all partitions using a partition magic software (gparted). I then re-partitioned the 500 GB drive (designated as Driver 0 in gparted), and formatted the partitions to install windows. I forgot to partition and format Driver 1 (the 24 GB SSD). So the status of Driver 1 now is just unallocated space (after having deleted its partitions). I installed windows on Partition C of driver 0. After spending 12 hours of reinstalling all my programs and apps, I am thinking now that I have made a big mistake by not utilizing  the speed of the SSD technology. But when I bought this laptop windows was installed on a single C driver with a total size of about 480 GB. No other SSD drivers had appeared in windows as separate drives at the time. So I figured I should install windows on the 500 GB HDD (driver 0 in gparted). And thats what I did.
My questions:
1-Can I benefit from the SSD hard drive right now? (without formatting again) Is it totally unused now with its current state (Unallocated)?
2-Should I really have formatted the SSD to the NTFS file format and installed my windows on it? (I assume Windows did not exist on SSD in the first place when I bought this laptop (a new laptop from Asus).
3- I also noticed before deleting all the partitions in driver 0 and driver 1 prior to formatting, that driver 1 (SSD) had two partitions one of which was of an unknown file system (according to gparted). It was not NTFS or FAT32 or anything. What file format should I choose now if I have to format this drive now (without affecting my installed windows on driver 0).
4-Is it worth it to spend another 12 hours to install apps and programs in order to reinstall win 8 on this SSD? Will that make much of difference in Speed? (my boot time now is 34 seconds from the moment I press the power button to the moment desktop appears), is that good?
Sorry for my too many questions. Yesterday was the worst in my entire life. I also struggled to know how to boot the Windows DVD from bios and also it didnt let me install windows saying that windows cannot be installed on a driver of the GPT style (which is why I deleted all the partitions and started over).
Thanks for your time. I will appreciate your help.
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