Patent ID: 8260107

Claim:
A disk apparatus comprising: a disk section of recording and/or reproducing at least one of video, audio or data, a processing section of processing at least one of said video, audio or data, a disk start controller which controls said disk section and said processing section, a storage section of storing a flag indicating one of: a disk start disabling mode in which said disk section is not powered ON responsive to the disk apparatus being powered ON, or a disk start enabling mode in which said disk section is powered ON responsive to the disk apparatus being powered ON; and a disk start mode setting section of setting the flag to indicate the disk start disabling mode prior to installation of the disk apparatus and setting the flag to indicate the disk start enabling mode subsequent to installation of the disk apparatus, and wherein said disk start controller, responsive to the disk apparatus being powered ON, (1) applies power to said processing section without applying power to said disk section when the flag indicates said disk start disabling mode, and (2) applies power to said disk section and said processing section when the flag indicates said disk start enabling mode, wherein when power is applied to the processing section, the processing section is able to process the at least one of said video, audio or data.