Importing photos in lightroom

Dear All,
I would like to presente myself , my name is Pascal Poitevin and my hobby is photography and particularly astro photography. I am writing because I have an issue to import photos to lightroom.
I have just install try lightroom 3.3 64bits.
My questions is when I want to import the photos jpeg format from the internal drive, I can see them but when there are imported or zoomed I see a black grey screen. Is it due to the format of the photos or to the setting?
How I can solve this issue?
Sincerely yours
Pascal Poitevin

Dear Pascal,
could you have a look here and did you follow these rules?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/2.0/WS427A4C94-2499-456d-8E17-AE09D3316A03.html
Hans-G.
P.S.
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