The Joys of Windows 8: Lenovo Y500 ExpressCache guide.

Its been months since my last post. Actually over a year.
Ive long since given away my xperia play to someone who needed it.
So that whole post was kinda useless.
I bought a new Ideapad Y500 from Lenovo. And ive been loving it.
Until Windows 8 May 2013 update fucked my install, and I had to reinstall.

I thought I knew exactly what I was doing as well. I was far from knowing what I was doing.

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EXPRESS CACHE
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Lets start with the hardest part, Intel Rapid Storage / ExpressCache
This was the hardest thing to do, Myself I thought id end up installing windows on the drive, and that'd be done, Turns out the 16gb SSD is used for cache'ing.

1. First of all, you need to have the SSD unpartitioned. if you don't have a windows disc handy, you can just run diskmgmt.msc , find your SSD (in my case it was the 14.3gb drive) and press DEL. That'll ask if you want to delete all the volumes, then the disc should disappear and you're ready.

2. There is two links I had success with for this part.
     - Number One - I installed this first (RUN AS ADMIN)
     - Number Two - Then I ran this (ALSO ADMIN)

After this you SHOULD be running ExpressCache, and there's a nice way to check
Create a .bat file with the following line:

start cmd.exe /k "eccmd.exe -info

Run this as admin, and if it returns some sort of table, then it is successful, if not you probably assumed having UAC off would incur that you ran the program as admin, and it did not.

Now we have ExpressCache back. But what about Intel Rapid Storage?
Well it turns out that's just an updated driver for AHCI, which does increase your harddrive management. (I didn't research this part too much)

So you can just install intel rapidstorage from intel themselves, since expresscache will be doing the cache'ing.