IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce an access load concentrated on the specified area part of a magnetic storage device and to enlarge the operation of a file system when the operations of the magnetic storage device and the file system are used in an image forming device. SOLUTION: In an image forming device, the image of a medium is read, a prescribed image processing is executed on image data and a prescribed copying operation is executed. CPU 100 controlling a second area existing after the final address of a first area in a hard disk 110 where a file is generated with the copying operation and the storage of picture data is deleted with the termination of the copying operation is installed so that it is used for the next copying operation.