HP G61-322NR: how to replace the hard drive of my laptop

I'm new, please help.  Hard drive my laptop has failed and must be replaced.  Can I order a similar disk (a 160 GB SATA drive) on ebay.  Question: when I receive and replace the disk, what steps should I take to the BIOS of the laptop to recognize the new disk, make the primary, and then install the operating system Windows 7 from my recovery DVD?

Perhaps the BIOS sees the drive automatically and I can simply use the Reccovery DVD?

Thank you!

It really is exactly as simple as that. And I'm glad that my metaphor of the car has been heard.

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