Saving my program to a floppy disk

I am trying to save my program to a floppy and disk and when I go to run the bytecode I get this error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: a:\FirstProgram
I don't know why. Any suggestions would be great.

Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: a:\FirstProgramThat's a very peculiar error for the specified problem. Post some code.
One way to do it would be:
if(System.getProperty("os.name").indexOf("windows") > -1) {
   File[] f = File.listRoots();
   for(int i = 0; i < f.length; i++) {
       if(f.startsWith("a") || f.startsWith("A")) {
           saveFileToDisk(f);
} else { // Assume an unix variant
   if(new File("/mnt/floppy").exists()) {
         saveFileToDisk(new File("/mnt/floppy"));
}Although that implementation is really weak. You should maybe show a file dialog and let the user pick a spot where to save.
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