Patent ID: 7813241

Claim:
A recovery method for recording an optical disc, comprising following steps: (a) reading data within Data Control Blocks corresponding to respective sessions on the optical disc, and checking whether the optical disc is finalized or not; (b) reading a Table of Contents (TOC) block within a lead-in zone on the optical disc, when reading the TOC block succeeds, going to Step (e), and when reading the TOC block fails, proceeding with Step (e) if the optical disc is checked to be finalized, and proceeding with Step (c) if the optical disc is checked to be non-finalized; (c) recovering the TOC block to generate a recovered TOC block; (d) storing the recovered TOC block; and (e) ending a loading operation of the optical disc; wherein Step (b) checking whether the optical disc is finalized or not by directly utilizing information obtained from checking whether the optical disc is finalized or not in Step (a).