But as allways there is many ways to do things, and a LOT of written words in the manual, and since English is not my mother language it confuses more than it helps me.

This is what I want to do: I want to make a MANUAL cloning of my computer (make a "clone") to an external hard drive so I can recover my computer exacly like it was before disaster struck. (I am speaking of the programs, the song and documents I backup to the external hard drive in "The old way")

Is there anyone out there who can "guide" me in the folloving three things:

Make a clone of my computer on an external hard drive.

Make a recovery disk so I can "restore" my computer if disaster struck.

and:
Tell me how I test the recovery disk to be sure everything work.