Creating a hidden partition and making an installable backup on it

Hi all, first post here so i am hoping i am doing this right.

I am want to make a hidden partition then make a restorable backup in that partition just like the manufacturers do.

I have three drives, a 120gig SSD
one 1tb drive
one 2tb drive
running win7 Ultimate

I have just put the SSD in and reinstalled win 7 plus all the other software i use, what a time consuming job that is.
I want to be able to access the hidden drive at boot and then do a restore to my clean system install should something go wrong on my system.

I looked into this quite a few years ago but things have changed drasically since then with new software and the like, so i am looking for recommendations and how to do it

cheers