I got this.
1. Download free Acronis Western Digital edition (look it up, its free with WD external drives but unlike Seagate edition it doesn't check for a drive to be present).
2. Back up the whole, all partitions, 750GB drive to some external drive with enough free space (for me it was about 16GB since laptop was the way it came from Dell and I haven't installed anything but Windows 8 updates)
3. Install mSATA drive
4. Change SATA to AHCI mode in BIOS
5. Restore your back up to the mSATA drive in Windows. Acronis will re-size partitions automatically so going from 750GB to 256GB is ok.
6. Change boot drive in BIOS to mSATA
7. Erase 750GB drive and delete all the partitions on it to have one full 750GB parting on it. I did that in Linux since Windows8 didn't let me delete Dell's recovery and diag partitions.
8. Format 750GB partition.
Done and it works.
Source: http://en.community.dell.com/thread/20414451.aspx
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