Recovery on a separate hard drive?

Hello

I have a HP Pavilion Touchsmart 15 b146ef and I need to replace my hard drive. I know I have to reinstall the operating system (Windows 8) but I see I have two hard drive in the devices folder and the C: and D: drives. So I wonder if I need to request a new image of the HP operating system or if my hard drive D: is still available after the replacement and allow me to reinstall the operating system by myself. In other words, are both of these separate hard drives or it is the only kind of a VHD?

Thank you

C and D are two partitions on a hard drive. When you remove the hard drive both partitions move with him. You have the software to create a recovery DVD or USB flash media. You create, replace the hard drive, start with recovery media.

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