# New machine having trouble loading first program from flash drive

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**Category:** Troubleshooting (X35/X50)\
**Created:** [February 8, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/new-machine-having-trouble-loading-first-program-from-flash-drive/18670 "2023-02-08T18:00:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![349iq2345](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/bb73d2/32.png) [@349iq2345](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/349iq2345)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/new-machine-having-trouble-loading-first-program-from-flash-drive/18670/2 "2023-02-08T18:06:37Z")

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Hey Randall,

the cause may be that

> [@Saving a tool path](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/saving-a-tool-path/17287/8):
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> [exFAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#exFAT) Filesystem found on practically every USB drive bigger than 32 GB nowadays.

Support for modern [exFAT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#exFAT) is not installed¹ on the Onefinity Controller ☹

> [@Saving a tool path](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/saving-a-tool-path/17287/8):
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> If your flash drive is not recognized by Onefinity Controller, you have to reformat the flash drive using [NTFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS) or [FAT32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32) or [ext4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) instead. 🙂

1. – would become available via [fuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption) on the older Raspberry Pi OS version found on Onefinity controller by doing ‘apt-get install fuse exfat-fuse exfat-utils’

An alternative approach would be to [connect using a remote computer](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/how-to-directly-connect-your-onefinity-cnc-to-a-computer-laptop-no-screen-present-buildbotics-controller/9248). This has two advantages: 1. You don’t need a flash drive, the file you want to upload just has to be somewhere on that computer and 2. on the remote computer, you can see the [Camotics](https://camotics.org) 3D toolpath simulation (not available on the Onefinity Controller monitor because 3D graphics support is not installed).

 ![Onefinity_UI_Toolpath_simulation](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/3X/3/2/3204717fbfc829854c608818144830e41c3fafee.png)

Welcome to the forum!

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