Cloned Mavericks installation has lost the Recovery HD drive

Finally my DVD Superdrive died on my early 2008 Macbook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4,1 (A1260), with 6GB RAM (Max)
I took the opprotunity to take out the Superdrive and used a caddy to install a second hard drive in its place.
Before installation I cloned my Mavericks installation from the old 750GB Toshiba HD (Drive-B) onto a new 1TB Seagate Hybrid (Drive-A) using CCC. I then took out Drive-B, installed the new Drive-A in its place, and installed Drive-B in the superdrive caddy. (See picture)
Upon restarting I booted into my new Drive-A installation and have tested it for the past 24 hours. All is indeed working well, and I can boot from either drive. Both drives are identical, except that the cloning process did not copy the "Recovery HD" partition from Drive-B onto Drive-A (from which I am currently booted).
I now want to take Drive-B out and put it into its own external enclosure, and replace it with a newly formatted 1TB Seagate Hybrid (Drive-C).
I have two questions and would appreciate some considered advice please. Thanks in advance...
On Drive-C I want to install a bootable copy of Snow Leopard for software compatibility reasons; however doing so will therefore mean that I have no "Recovery HD' partition anywhere on my system. The possible solution to restore a "Recovery HD" partition may be to run the "Install OS X Mavericks.dmg" (which I have a saved copy of on another partition) by copying it to Drive-A's "/Applications" folder and run it from there to repair my installation. Is this correct?
My second question is, what would be the best and most efficient way to run a such a setup on my laptop (2 x 1TB bootable hard drives, one running Mavericks and one Snow Leopard)? If I run a Spotlight search for an application, I would not want two instances of two separate installations to pop up. Should I go into each installation and preclude its Spotlight from searching the other's installation disk? Would it be better to run the Snow Leopard from an external drive and use Drive-C as a Time Machine of Drive-A?

Update...
Regarding question 1
I managed to reinstall the OS X Installer on Drive-B and tested it - it worked fine and restored my Recovery HD drive.
After testing it for a few hours, I then did the same for the new Drive-A. It went swimmingly.
I now have a Recovery HD drive on both drives, confirmed by using Terminal to check using "diskutil list" (lists all connected drives)
So now I have two Mavericks installations on my comp, and keep updating the B drive with A's changes as I go along using CCC. I have just ordered another Seagate Hybrid 1TB and will use that for the second drive in my comp and use B as a secondary external storage.
Thanks for the advice folks and would still appreciate 'considered' advice about question 2 - how best to use two separate drives installed in one comp.

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