How to upgrade to m.2 ssd as boot drive in Ideapad U430 touch?

I would like to install a 128 gb m.2 SSD (NGFF) as the boot drive for this system while leaving the 500 gb hybrid drive for file storage and applications. Can you recommend a step-by-step process to accomplish this? I haven't seen other forum posts where the m.2 drive would be the boot drive. The O/S is Win 8.1 and the only system backup I have made to this point is on the main drive. (Specific model number is 20270; part number 59399722 if that helps!) Any help or guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

bumping this post.
Is this a good idea?
I assume moving the os to the m.2 ssd drive?
How to do this step-by-step?

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