Patent ID: 8032008

Claim:
A content recording/reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing content data including audio data, video data, or computer data to and/or from a recording medium having a recording area, in which main data is recorded, and a management area, in which data for managing the main data is recorded, the apparatus comprising: recording/reproducing means for recording content data to the recording medium or reproducing content data from the recording medium; operating means for receiving instructions to record or reproduce the content data to or from the recording medium; editing means for editing, by one of deleting, copying, and reordering, information recorded in the recording area, in which the main data is recorded, and in the management area, in which the managing data is recorded, in response to a command received from the operating means; deletion history generating means for generating deletion history information on the basis of information corresponding to the content data when the content data is deleted from the recording medium in response to the command received from the operating means, the deletion history information including identification information, address information of a recording area, and a time of deletion; and controlling means for controlling the deletion history generating means to generate the deletion history information when the content data recorded in the recording medium is deleted in response to the command received from the operating means and for recording the deletion history information to the recording medium.