USB Floppy disc and Vista

I'm thinking of buying a used USB floppy reader to read old photo discs.
Will it work with a Vista or Windows 7 machine?

 

For example: Newegg, Amazon, Froogle.

 

The universal serial bus (USB) interface should ensure the drive is recognized by Windows, and not be a problem. The bigger problem will likely be the drive's ability to read your old floppy disks. Charges (the data) on magnetic recording materials degrade over time even in the best of conditions. If these disks have been sitting around for several years, they (or some of the files on them) may be unreadable.

Much depends on the initial quality of the disks, the strength of the magnetic field used to orient the magnetic particles (write the 1s and 0s) on the recording medium, the environment (dust, temperature and humidity) during storage, rough/gentle handling, isolation from other magnetic materials and magnetic fields during storage, and finally, time.

The point is, if these are files you don't want to lose, it is definitely worth trying to recover them as these drives won't bust the budget. However, don't get your hopes for 100% success up too high - especially if these disks have been sitting around in a dusty drawer for many years.