Linux-based Live-CDs Not Booting

I have Toshiba Satellite M45-S169 that known good (working in other computers) Live-CDs will not boot. While other Live Cd's will boot on the Toshiba laptop. Has anyone found a fix for this?
CloneZilla Live-CD will not boot on the Toshiba, but does on other computers.
SystemRescueCD Live-CD will not boot on the Toshiba, but will on other computers
Bart-PE Windows XP Live-CD Boots on the Toshiba, and other computers.
All of these CDs are Linux-based, which may or may not mean anything. The one that works on the Toshiba is the oldest, so maybe it has to do with what basic Linux Kernel is being used.
I really want to get CloneZilla to work on this so I can make a backup image. The version of CloneZilla is their i486 one that claims to run on any i386 processor.
The Toshiba has Windows XP-Home with Service Pack 3. It works well, but would feel better if I had a backup. It has an Intel Celeron M processor reported to be 1.60 GHz with 1.43 GB RAM.
Thanks,
Jim

Jerry,
Thanks for the reply - you are correct; I was mistaken about Bart-PE. Don't know what I was thinking.
I have worked around my Linux problem by installing Marium Reflect. I wanted a way to create a backup image of the Toshiba C: drive and believed CloneZilla or other Linux-based software was the only answer. But found the Reflect free edition that worked. So my ultimate goal is achieved (without getting Linux to boot). I now have a saved image of the hard disk and Win-PE based rescue disk that can be used to restore that image. I feel safer now. Hopefully I will never need it.
It is disappointing that Linux wont run on this computer. I might investigate that further when I have the time. I just found another tool that wont run on this computer - Speccy from Piriform.

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I do have some old ATA IDE drives I can hook externally to the Mac, and copy some of the information I have from the Mac to those drives before doing the 10.5.8 install.
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