When installing Fedora Core 2, and Core 1 also, I get an error message stating that my partition table is wrong and it must be deleted in order to install Fedora losing all my data (which I can't).

I tried a FIXMBR and FIXBOOT from Windows to try to clean the mess up, but Fedora keeps saying that my partition table is wrong.

I never used Partition Magic or such.

Mi partition table is OK, for I installed Mandrake 9.2 without problems AFTER Fedora reported it was wrong.

Any help?

fixmbr that you tried only cleans the main boot record for windows, so that doesn't help you at all...the problem resides in the real partitions. I'd say you should now make backup of your HD and re-partition it...I've had a similar situation, where I had a working linux on HD but a newer one couln't be installed because of the partition table that was somehow screwed up. and I only could help it by deleting all the partitions and re-creating them..

anyway, whether you choose to redo partition table or not, I suggest to make backup of your data..there might one morning be a note for you that the partition table is unusable ok, that'd be bad..but might happen.

another chance is, that your fedora installation needs a different kind of partitioning setup than your mandrake...in that case, you don't have much other choises but wipe out the existing table and re-create it.

Check this post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=183558

Common issue by the looks of things. I'm doing this LBA change in my bios tonight. Hope it works.