Hotswap! Alternatives
Hotswap! is described as 'It does the same thing as you can remove device from Device Manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Hotswap! for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best alternative is USB Disk Ejector, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hotswap! are Zentimo xStorage Manager, Ratool - Removable Access Tool, Ejecter and EjectUSB.
A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program.
Zentimo offers you an innovative approach to manage your USB & eSATA drives. While it solves many external drive related problems in Windows, it also gives more control on your devices and just makes working with external drives fun & pleasure.
Removable Access Tool is a simple to use portable freeware application which aids in the control of external storage devices such as USB flash drives, CD/DVD drives, as well as floppy, tape and WPD devices.
EjectUSB was designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified.
Discontinued
Last version, 1.6, can be still downloaded from Softpedia.
ProEject is an easy to use application which allows you to safely dismount a removable drive by closing running applications and open windows, as well as clearing the registry and folders of any trace that the USB drive might have left behind.
Discontinued
Official site is now private, app not publicly accessible.
Ejectify automatically unmounts external volumes when your Mac starts sleeping, and mounts them again after it wakes up.
