HELP with recoving data

I have a failed windows XP installation and somewhat damaged drive on a friends laptop trying to help.

I managed to boot it up with a disb. from CD and mount the C: drive and found the files which my friend wants to backup. However the CD disb. has no USB support, and I can not burn them to CD.

Anyone have any idea how I can easily boot something from USB or CD which is free and allows me to copy files to an USB device/burn to CD