need help with making boot usb for imaging

[eyeb]

I've tried nearly all of the drive imaging programs on the recommended list here and I've seem to run into same problem on all of them. I'm having problems making a boot usb so I can access the drive image so I don't have to reformat from recovery partition. It seems like I can save backup fine but when I go to make a recovery media for usb drive, on boot up it shows me an error or a blank screen with the program logo but no menus.

I'm on windows xp sp 3, and no cd drive. I also only got a recovery partition so I can't use the bart pe builder thing because no cd files... I also have no problems booting from usb with ubuntu so I don't think its a bios thing.

So anyone have any suggestions what problem might be or know a program that would work? I just want to use drive image so I have to reformat/reinstall everything when windows goes bad. Plus I think it's a good idea incase I lose the recovery partition for some reason.

[eyeb]

hm i figured out how to do this with drivexml and bartpe so I guess someone can close this thread