How to properly make a copy of Mountain Lion on a USB flash drive?

Please Help!
I tried to do the manual copy of Mountain Lion on my SanDisk cruzer blade 8gb flash drive but every time Disk Utility "finishes" the restore it displayes the following message:
'Failure Restore'
Could not restore - Invalid argument.
I tried 4 different times and the last one on a 32gb SanDisk flash drive but I get the same message.
I followed the steps on this address:
http://lifehacker.com/5928780/how-to-burn-os-x-mountain-lion-to-a-dvd-or-usb-fla sh-drive
Help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

For people encountered the same problem with Daniela21, you don't need any 3rd party software. Problem occurs because the partition on the disk (not the disk itself) is mounted. Just right+click or cmd+click on the partition beneath the disk and select unmount. Note it's important to unmount just the partition and not the disk.
For a more detailed explanation with a screenshot :
http://aproudlove.squarespace.com/blog/2011/7/23/how-to-fix-restore-failure-coul d-not-restore-resource-busy.html
Hope it works ..

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