OSX says it can't fix my 2nd drive on startup?

So I have a 2nd hard drive replacing the optical drive. It's formatted in ExFat so I can access and write on it from both OSX and Win 7.
Every time I restart the mac or go from windows to osx, it will try to mount the 2nd drive and tells me that it "cant fix the drive, however I can still access it", like there was some seriously wrong thing going on with it.
I havent really used the drive yet, so Im not sure if I might lose data or not. Im afraid to store stuff in it.
Does anyone know if that really means something is bad or it just spams that message because of the ExFat thing?
ps: When I run "diskutil list", it says my 2nd hard drive is WINDOWS NTFS...even though Ive formatted it to ExFat via OSX...

You can't format a disk as ExFat on Mac OS X
Read https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4745362
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