My iPhone 5C will charge from my PC but iTunes won't read it?

It does charge from the PC itself but iTunes acts like there's nothing there. It is an HP Pavilion and it is on Windows 8

I had that happened with mine. Bottom line you'll have to go online to iTunes chat support on that PC. The tech will guide you with the correct order of steps where you'll uninstall iTunes and it's component files in a certain way so you can then do a clean install of iTunes that will work.