Patent ID: 8024363

Claim:
An information processing apparatus adapted to be connected for use to a media drive apparatus for recording data on or reproducing data from a recording medium having a file system, the apparatus comprising: a real file system acquiring section that acquires the file system of the recording medium from the media drive apparatus; and a virtual file system providing section that, based on interception of a request to the file system acquiring section to acquire the file system, converts the file system acquired by the file system acquiring section into a virtual file system having a directory/file structure different from a directory/file structure of the file system on the recording medium and provides the converted virtual file system to an application program executable by the information processing apparatus to access the recording medium by means of the virtual file system, wherein the real file system acquiring section is realized by a file system driver, and the virtual file system providing section is realized by the file system driver or a file system filter driver.