New 3TB Drive Not Working

[Booshman97]

So I recently just purchased a Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive. After having installed it in my PC not only does my PC take WAY too long to load into windows, we're talking like a minute when it's usually a few seconds ad my boot drive is on and SSD and I definitely have the SSD first in the boot order in the BIOS. When I got to disk management in Windows the disk also fails to initialize 'due to an I/O error' and subsequently does not allow me to partition the drive. Is the drive faulty? Have I done anything very wrong? (I have installed HDD's before! ) Is it possible that my motherboard does not support drives greater than 2TB (I've heard this is a thing)? My motherboard is an MSI Z77A-G45 if that helps. Thanks in advance.

[Hacka]

The MSI product page says:

 

 

3TB+ Infinity

3TB+ Infinity is not only breaking through the limit of traditional BIOS, but also enhancing the utilization of hard drives efficiently. In addition to supporting the latest 3TB hard drives, MSI 3TB+ Infinity technology can use the 3TB hard drive as boot disk when installing a 64-bit operating system. Compared to competitors, MSI 3TB+ Infinity is an industry-leading technology which substantially presents an advantage of development and application in the future.

Features
- All the latest 3TB hard drivers on the market can be supported
- Make the 3TB hard drive as boot disk when installing a 64-bit operating system

 

it may be worth seeing if there are any updates for your board

[Hacka]

This is worth having a read:

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/280373-32-very-slow-boot-times-adding-hard-disc-system-boot

[Booshman97]

Thanks, it seems as though this 3TB+ Infinity is only talking about booting from 3TB+ drives. All I want is a storage drive, will it make a difference in this case?