Installing a fresh copy of OS X Mavericks from USB on iMac 12,1 with broken SuperDrive.

Hi,
I want to get a fresh copy of OS X Mavericks on my iMac 12,1 (mid-2011 - i5 2,5GHz, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon 6750M with 512MB) with broken SuperDrive. I made a pendrive with DiskMaker X, but I can't boot it anymore on iMac. My flash drive isn' corrupt - it performs well on MacBook Pro. What can I do to install it on iMac?
Greetings,
Jakub Borys
Post scriptum - Sorry for my poor English.

Oh, man, I wish I had something useful to offer. It sounds bad. Really bad.
Do you have a friend -- or possibly a Mac ot work -- from which you could make a new USB Mavericks installer? I only say that because I've read of a few problems here and there with boot drives made with DiskMaker X. What I'd recommend, if it's at all possible, is to download the latest Mavericks DMG file, reformat the USB drive with a fresh GUID partition and then burn the disk image onto it with the Mavericks built in createinstallmedia method. Here's a link to an article which describes how to do it: http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install -drive.html. This is, in fact, the very article which got me onto the right path.
You'd think that a bootable Mavericks installer would be a bootable Mavericks installer no matter how it was made. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case.

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