Patent ID: 8140836

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a first recording medium to store a first program; a connection section to which a second recording medium can be connected from outside; a memory section to store unbootable information indicating an unbootability of the first program; a control section to confirm whether or not the unbootable information is stored in the memory section while a BIOS is being booted, to boot the second program stored in the second recording medium connected to the connection section when storage of the unbootable information in the memory section is confirmed, to confirm whether or not the first program is bootable when storage of the unbootable information in the memory section cannot be confirmed, to boot the first program when the bootability of the first program is confirmed, and to store the unbootable information in the memory section and turn off power of the information processing apparatus when the bootability of the first program cannot be confirmed, wherein when the bootability of the first program cannot be confirmed, the second program, including a plurality of kinds of defect coping programs corresponding to kinds of defects which disable the first program to be booted, stores detailed defect information indicating a kind of a defect in the memory section, and when the second program is booted, the defect coping program corresponding to the kind of the defect indicated by the detailed defect information stored in the memory section is booted.