I spent time on the phone getting help from Asus. We tried a number of things but I finally came to the conclusion to abandon my idea of installing Windows 8 on this machine. If I combined partitions C and D into one I would be deleting the recovery partition. And unless I were to buy a copy of Windows 7 it would be impossible to restore my Asus to factory specs.

Then the idea of creating a dual booting machine was also out of my reach as well.

Asus techs told me they had many calls today with people who installed Windows 8 and now want to revert back and they can't get that to happen. So I'm very fortunate to still have a very nice operating Asus All in One.