Making a bootable USB Drive for Windows 8 Release Candidate; How To?

Hello everyone,
I am in the process of building a Windows PC and I need to make a bootable USB Thumb Drive to Install the Windows 8 Release Candidate on. The only problem is when I go into the restore section of Disk Utility it always comes up with either of these errors:
Thanks in advance,
Sean.

I have created PC bootable USB's on Mac OS X before but I am having trouble finding the instructions to duplicate that. It's been a while. It's not impossible though.

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Message was edited by: tzaphon

This is not difficult and you will not have to download from the app store.
your computer has what is called a recovery partition that came with it.
simply hold cmd+R while you boot up. let go a second after you hear the chime.
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Name: Mass Storage
Device ID: USB\VID_8564&PID_1000\0526DL9JNR9Z494R
Error code: 28

Code 28
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