Data destruction preventing method, recording apparatus provided with data destruction preventing capability, and disc recorded with guard band.

摘要

PURPOSE:To prevent prerecorded data from being destroyed by track jumping at the time of recording and to improve recording efficiency. CONSTITUTION:When an area adjacent to consecutive non-recorded areas FRA to which the data on a recording medium are to be recorded is a recorded area REA to which the data are already recorded, the guard band part GB of a prescribed length which does not record the data is formed in a part in the non-recorded area FRA adjacent to the recorded area.