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Old 04-17-2005, 12:56 AM   #1
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reformated with ME - uh oh.

i reformatted my computer and installed ME. my computer cant handle xp and all. Everything went great until i restarted my computer. for some reason my screen is grey, and its in 16 bit colour. i can't change it to 32 bit, or change the resoultion. it doesnt say it's in safe mode. my hard drive for some reason has gone from 60 gb to 1.99 gb.

can someone tell me what the heck has happened???

I hope this is an easy fix and i don't have to buy a new hard drive because i fried it or something.

-Jamie
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Old 04-17-2005, 03:46 AM   #2
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1. You need to install the drivers for your video card.

2. You need to repartition your hard drive using FDISK. You must answer "yes" to the question to enable large drive support. This will enable FAT32, you are using FAT16 now which has a 2gb partition size limit.
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