Patent ID: 8325437

Claim:
An image recording/reproducing device comprising: a disk mount in which a removable hard disk for recording an image is mounted; a disk error detector for detecting an occurrence of a disk error depending on whether the removable hard disk can be recognized or not; a write protect detector for detecting whether a write-protect switch in the removable hard disk is in a Write Enable state or not; a mount status detector for detecting a presence or absence of the removable hard disk as a disk mount status based on a detection result obtained by the write protect detector; an error type discriminator for, based on the disk mount status detected by the mount status detector, discriminating an error type of the disk error detected by the disk error detector, and determining that the error type is disk separation if the removable hard disk has become nonexistent; and an error handler for performing error handling in accordance with the error type discriminated by the error type discriminator.