Here you go folks! There is an interesting program called USB Safely Remove, a self proclaimed must have if you frequently use such hotplug devices as: flash drives, USB\SATA drives, card readers and the like. Read more about it at:
Download the program here:
http://safelyremove.com/usbsafelyremovesetup.exe
If you hurry, you can get a free license for version 4.1 of this software. Go to:
http://safelyremove.com/giveaway10K.htm
They are giving away 10,000 license keys and as of 10/2/2009 at 1740 hours, they still had some to give away, so get on over there and check it out. I haven’t use it yet, but I just now downloaded it and got my key. I’ll put up a review when I have played with it some. Enjoy!