PC will not boot past the home screen with USB HDD connected?

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Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V LX, on the latest version of the BIOS.  Eight USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports.  Intel i5 CPU. 8 GB of DDR3 RAM. Graphics card is NVIDIA GTS 8800 512, and I have a GTX 960 FTW on the way. Corsair CSX500 PSU.

Model reader problem: WDBHML0040HAL-RK

-J' ordered this drive of Studio 4 to WD outside of eBay for $109, used. The drive has been used previously on OS X, and I had planned to use it between two Windows 7, 10 and 10 OS X via dual-boot.
-Boots PC regularly without the connected reader, but it hangs at the splash screen, if the player is connected to one of my 10 USB ports.
-I can't not to enter the BIOS with the drive connected, and if I get into the BIOS without connection, BIOS freezes as soon as I make it connect.
-I went into the BIOS, (with the device / disconnected /), and external hard drives moved to the low boot priority. This had no effect.
-The PC recognises the drive if it is connected / after start. I can copy files to and from the disk without flaw.
-When it is received, the disk has been formatted with a face-to-face 200 MB EFI system partition, (I have no background knowledge about it), with the rest ~3.5TB unscathed HFS + space.
-Immediately, I formatted the partition HFS + and it separated in exFAT and NTFS.
-Deletion of the EFI partition to command line has no effect.

Someone online says that this is due to the ASUS P8Z68 trying to boot from the drive and to disable "Legacy USB Support" from the BIOS, but my knowledge of the ways all USB devices are disabled, including keyboards. I am doing a FULL disk formatting and will update the post I have try these solutions.

I'm really in a bind here, guys. In all, any help is appreciated.

Solved myself. I went back to the basics:

The drive is 4 TB and I'm trying to use it as exFAT, for compatibility purposes. exFAT supports up to 2 TB per partition. The solutions are either break the 4 TB drive halfway, or to use the NTFS system.

For the record, I chose exFAT.

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