Patent ID: 8111597

Claim:
A data recording apparatus for recording data into an optical disk for which quick formatting is specified as a formatting scheme by a standard, the quick formatting being so specified as to format only a lead-in area, a lead-out area, and a head of a user area of the optical disk, the apparatus comprising: an optical disk drive which performs formatting of the optical disk and recording and reproduction of data into and from the optical disk in accordance with the scheme specified by the standard; and a control section which controls the optical disk drive in accordance with an instruction from a user, wherein the control section instructs the optical disk drive to execute the quick formatting for the optical disk by issuing a formatting command based on the instruction from the user when the optical disk is loaded, and sequentially instructs the optical disk drive to record dummy data in an unformatted area of the optical disk in an idle time, during which the optical disk is not subjected to processing instructions by the user, by issuing an actual data recording command to the optical disk drive at the time of instruction of data recording.