U410 SSD Initialization

Hi.
I've always had problems with my U410, rapidstart never worked, sleep issues, slow booting etc. Over several months I managed to tweak things to a workable state - the laptop goes to sleep properly, rapidstart was uninstalled. Booting is still slow (up to 20 minutes).
Anyhow, I had stopped paying attention to it all by simply rebooting as little as possible.
However, probably with the update to win 8.1 something strange happened: suddenly the SSD came to life! My SSD had never shown up anywhere on the device, not in DISKPART, not in Device manager, nowhere. So imagine my surprise when, while trying to repair a broken SD card, I'm suddenly prompted to "initialize" a 24GB SSD that has apparently always been there, but never worked.
So my disk manager now looks like this:
Here's the problem though: it won't initialize, and without initialization I can't create a hibernation partition, without which I can't get rapidstart to work, without which my slow-booting problems will continue to exist.
When choosing to initialize, I have to select the disk, choose between MBR and GPT and click on ok. Regardless of my choice, I get this error:
So yeah, any help would be appreciated. I actually have some hope that I now finally may be able to fix this booting issue, and hope is something I lost a long time ago when it came to all the trouble my U410 gave me.
Thanks,
Lemo

Thanks LenBlazer !
as confirmed that OP's installation of ExpressCache, I got no configuration windows after NEXT, only get this and request for restart, and then still got the error mentioned above.
I think most probably this related to RAID setting in BIOS? I have exactly same partition table as OP.
the same as my posted question:
(Re)activate Intel Rapid start technolgy (RST) & RAID @U310
@Lemodile, I guess you have also within BIOS set to ACHI, right?
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Hi telstra,
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