What's up with this? The drive in question is an 80gb IDE external drive, USB connected.
System extension cannot be used
The system extension “/System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext” was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product’s vendor for an update.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
Repair permissions in Disk Utility.
Turns out that the disk is accessible when I connect it to my Windows 7.0 machine at work but does not show up in Disk Utility or in About This Mac on my home iMac.
If your still getting that error it would explain it, & likely will require a reinstall to fix it.
System extension cannot be used The system extension “/System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext” was installed improperly and cannot be used.
