Patent ID: 7236689

Claim:
An apparatus for recording and reproducing data which manages files and records and/or reproduces data based on a virtual allocation table showing correspondence between actual addresses indicative of recording positions of the files on a recording medium and virtual addresses indicative of virtual recording positions of the files, the files having a sequence of data stored therein, the apparatus comprising: record and reproduction means for recording and/or reproducing data to and/or from the recording medium; and record control means for controlling the processing of recording divisionally the sequence of data to a logical sector string composed of a plurality of logical sectors and recording at least a piece of restoration file information for every logical sector string or for a plurality of logical sector strings to a predetermined area of the recording medium as restoration file information, when the record and reproduction means records the sequence of data; wherein, when interruption of data recording processing is detected, the record control means retrieves and reads out restoration file information, and restores a file whose recording processing is interrupted based on the restoration file information.