No, it will not work.'The Thing' is floppy disk drive emulator that replaces the original mechanical drive.The USB port of 'The Thing' is for a USB thumbdrive that stores disk images, you cannot plug a USB floppy drive to it.If you have real floppy disks that you want to use with emulator you must dump them as disk image files.If I plugged a USB floppy drive into the FDD Emulator, could I read floppies again? I have a handful of games with the floppies.