B570 1068 mSata SSD support

Hi,
I want to install an SSD into a Lenovo B570 Laptop. According to the data sheet it has "Two PCIe Mini Card slots".
Do these support mSata SSDs like the CT120M500SSD3 (only source saying it would is this) or do I have to get a special PCIe Mini card like the FPN064C2RM?
I am not sure what would work, optically the slot looks like a msata slot, but I found no reliable source saying it will work?!
I just found this post saying it supports msata SSDs but they werent sure if booting off an msata SSD was supported. Can anyone provide clarification on this matter?
Thanks,
volucris

Yes, due to BIOS limitations, booting off the Msata SSD might not be possible, you can use that ssd as a cache drive to help boost system performance or use it as a data drive, but you will not be able to boot windows from it
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Here is what I did for all the issues.
I had installed Ubuntu in this machine. Forgot the steps I did to install Ubuntu. Later I decided to upgrade the machine with 8 GB memory and 250 GB samsung EVO 480 mSATA. The problem was moving win 8 to mSATA.
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active
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assign
exit
exit
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xcopy d:\* f:\ /s /e
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once the copy process finishes,
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