Restoring a crashed XP using BKF!!!

Hello all,

It is ironic that I am here, because I own a tech business, but I have been stumped so long that I need to go ask the big-guns.

My problem: My computer was acting up.
My solution: Reinstall XP.

My second problem: I have a SATA drive which XP doesn't support by default.
My solution: Use nLite to package my drivers into my install disc and burn a new copy.

My third problem: install goes as planned, but when the computer starts up it gets to the Windows Logo loading-screen and crashes right as the blue bar enters the screen. The computer simply freezes, shuts down, reboots, and says "Windows did not shut down properly" or whatever the hell it says.

So now I have no clue what to do. I know it's not the wrong drivers--I got them directly from ASUS's website and made sure it's the 32-bit Windows XP drivers.

I have tried reinstalling Windows like 10 times over the past 3 days, so I know it wasn't just a faulty install.

My CD drive is 6 months old and my hard drive 2 months old. They both run perfectly, so I know it's not them.

Being the genius I am, I backed up my entire hard-drive on a BKF file with a clean install!!!!
So now I can just use the BKF file to write to my hard drive... if I had a working computer....

So here's my situation: I'd accept a helpful fix for the thing above, but I don't think there will be any fixes for it that I haven't already tried. But what I really do want is some advice on how to write my BKF file to my SATA HDD. I have my SATA connected to my computer via an external USB converter-switch-like-thing, so I have access to it. The BKF is stored on my laptop's HDD, but my Laptop is Vista (ewwie). I need to know how to take the BKF file from my Vista laptop and restore it onto my SATA HDD that is attached via USB. Vista's restore capability doesn't support XP's BKF files, so I was wondering if anybody knows of a third-party application or any way to get this back up, and quickly... I'm a developer and my computer has been down for 3 days!