U510 boots off SATA disk and not SSD?

I just bought a U510 thinking the boot disk and OS paging drive would be the SSD. Instead the SSD has static driver files and an application folder with MacAfee. I checked into the Hybrid storage pool concept in Windows 8 but that only seems to be for mirroring and the mirror is from SSD to SATA. Why would the U510 be set up this way - and is there an easy way to change this so Windows 8 lives on the SSD? I didn't get the Windows 8 install media otherwise would have tried changing this around already.
Thanks,
-chris

Thanks. So i looked at my cache stats, i'm not sure what it's supposed to say to verify that I have 24gb of ssd hybrid drive? Look at this screenshot and let me know?
http://imgur.com/EjeW9zs,7mrmucg#0
I also took this screenshot to show that there are 2 seperate drives. I googled both part numbers and one is 24gb ssd and the other is 1tb normal hdd.
http://imgur.com/EjeW9zs,7mrmucg#1
One more thing. It appears the 24gb ssd is meant to hold the backup files. I looked at the hidden files and they are for the backup program built it, and it by defaults tries to save a 24gb backup to the 24gb D: drive. This seems like a huge waste of an ssd to house a backup file?
EDIT, just noticed the d drive is 25gb while the ssd is only 24gb, this shouldn't be possible. i am guessing this is a hybrid ssd with caching, but just listed as 2 seperate drives. can anyone confirm?

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