3TB ExFat HDD Causing System Freeze

[Pandorica]

Hello all,

I have a 3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD from the recommended section of Tonymac's build guides.

I plugged in the drive, Mavericks saw it right away, and I formatted it to ExFat, because I intended it to be a shared mass storage drive between Mavericks and Windows 8.1 on my system.

However, upon reboot, the computer hangs on the BIOS splash screen. No key input is accepted.
As soon as I unplugged the drive and rebooted, everything worked fine.

Once I established that the drive was interrupting boot, I tried plugging in the drive while Mavericks was already running. Unfortunately, they drive wasn't recognized.

Does anyone have any ideas? At this point, if the drive will work formatted as MacOS Extended, I'll just stick with that.

Thank you!


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Specs:

Gigabyte Z87MX-D3H
Intel 4770K
GeForce GTX 770

 

[Pandorica]

UPDATE:

I'd forgotten to enable hot swapping in BIOS, so the drive is up and running formatted as Extended (Journaled).

Is there a way I'd be able to use this as an ExFat drive in the future?

Thanks!

 

[P1LGRIM]

Is there a way I'd be able to use this as an ExFat drive in the future?

exFAT is not a very good file system - See Wikipedia.

The slightest problem can result in data loss.

So, yes you can use it but expect problems if you do.

Good Luck