Patent ID: 7035976

Claim:
A content recording apparatus that writes, when a recording instruction is issued, into a first area of a recording medium predetermined information indicating a predetermined value, records into a plurality of partial areas sporadically distributing in a second area of said recording medium a content to which a plurality of markers are assigned in a predetermined manner, and after completing recording the content, writes into a third area of said recording medium link information indicative of a link state among partial areas in which the content is recorded and updates a value indicated by the predetermined information, written in said first area, comprising: a predetermined information detector for detecting the latest predetermined information out of the predetermined information written in said first area when a driving power is input; an area detector for detecting from said second area partial areas in a non-link state based on the link information written in said third area when the predetermined information detected by said predetermined information detector indicates the predetermined value; an information creator for creating link information indicative of a link state among the partial areas detected by said area detector; a marker detector for detecting the markers from the partial areas detected by said area detector; and a writing/updating processor for writing into said third area partial link information based on a detection result of said marker detector out of the link information created by said information creator, and updating a value indicated by the predetermined information detected by said predetermined information detector.