A recording apparatus of this invention detects the state of management information,
which pertains to a recording address of an image signal, and which is reproduced
from a disk-like recording medium having a first area for the image signal and
a second area for the management information. On the basis of the detection result,
management data is reproduced from the first area of the disk-like recording medium.
On the basis of the management data reproduced from the first area, the management
information reproduced from the second area is modified. A modify unit records
the modified management information in the second area.
