Rescue and Recover create backup on usb drive failed

Dear all, I am very new to the backup software. After browsing through the forum for what I can do with the recovery and rescue process, I decide to follow the standard procedure. My notebook is T61 with vista home basic. I did not change any partition configuration or mess up the factory settings. The only thing I did is to update the Think Valtage package to the latest version. For R&R, it is 4.21. I burned the set of recovery disc (1 cd + 3 dvd) and the rescue disc (1 cd). All went very well. Then I started to create a base backup, the destination drive is a Seagate usb drive. Shortly I started the backup process, I received 5 to 6 dialog box stating some file could not be copied from z drive, I just clicked OK for each. Then I was presented a dialog box stating that the operation was canneled. So the backup cannot proceed.
I again checked the forum and figured out the z dirve should be the hidden service partition. But I did not change any partition settings or reinstall the OS, how come some files were not there? Anyone encounted the same problem before?
I got another question. Some posts mentioned when the RnR did the first backup on an usb drive, it will ask whether the drive is set to bootable (although I did not see this step myself). May I know what is the difference between making the usb drive bootable or non-bootable? Since I have got data on my usb drive and did not want to repeat the data copying again, can I choose the non-bootable? If in the future I need to restore a backup, I plan to boot the notebook with rescue cd and then restore from the usb backup. Is this possible?

I don't think the failure is due to usb drive file permission. I reached this conclusion based on 2 observations,
1.  The 5 or 6 dialog box which contains the error states very clearly a message like that z:\preboot\xxx cannot be found, where z is the hidden service partition
2.  Althouth the backup was cancelled shortly after launching, it did create some files and folders on the usb drive (D drive), they are
    d:\boot
    d:\preboot
    d:\bootmgr
    d:\copyfile
  where boot and preboot are folders and there are some files inside. The copyfile is a script file, if opened in notepad, I can see that the lines indicate copying files from z:\boot to D:\boot, from z:\preboot to D:\preboot, etc.
   It seemed that certain files in z:\boot and z:\preboot cannot be found and they are so critical that backup will not continue without them.

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