Patent ID: 7475327

Claim:
An optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus that records/reproduces information in/from an optical disc, comprising a system controller which includes: an error correction information judgment unit that judges, when an ECC error correction fails in both a management information file and a backup file of the management information file in an optical disc, whether the ECC error correction fails due to damage of row ECC error correction information in the management information file and row ECC error correction information for a same portion in the backup file is intact; a first error correction judgment unit that judges, when the row ECC error correction information is intact, whether the ECC error correction succeeds by using the row ECC error correction information in the backup file as a row ECC error correction information in the management information file; a second error correction judgment unit that judges, when the ECC error correction fails and when a portion where the ECC error correction fails is specified and the portion does not overlap in the management information file and in the backup file, whether all ECC error corrections succeed by merging the portion with a portion where the ECC error correction succeeds; a third error correction judgment unit that tentatively performs padding in the portion where the ECC error correction fails even by the merging, and judges whether the ECC error correction succeeds by estimation based on a file size for the portion where the padding was performed; and a file writing unit that newly writes a correct management information file at an address different from an originally assigned address, when the optical disc is a re-writable optical disc and when it is judged that the ECC error correction succeeds by any of the first, second, and third error correction judgment units.