Format duel HD MacBook Pro Help??

Hi everyone ok im looking to do a full format of my Mac just to generally clean everything up as it got a little slow recently.
Im just not sure how to go about this as I have 2 Drives in the machine, the first is a 64gb SSD which is in an optibay where the superdive used to be, this is what OSX and all my Apps are on.
Then I have a 1TB regular HDD in the normal place which I belive supplys my Home/User side? All of my Itunes (140gb) and pics plus documents are stored on here.
About my set up
Late 2010 15inch MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB
OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion).
Any advice on what to do would be much appreciated, im not the most tech savvy I must say!!
Thanks Dan

You have a irregular configuration, not only that the SSD is in the optical bay when it should have been in the hard drive bay and vise versa.
This way if your hard drive had problems you can still boot from the SSD and have a (bare bones) account on the machine to then target the hard drive for repair/recovery/replacement. Optical bays are a bit flakey to use soemtimes, perhaps this is your trouble now.
You got it all on there, I assume you know how to go about backing data up and straightening it out.
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