An information reproducing apparatus, in which a disk having correction
data recorded thereon is placed, acquires region information indicative
of a region corresponding to the correction data after load processing is
performed by a ROM loader. Then, under the control of a CPU, the
apparatus determines the correction data to be used for correcting a
reproducing program based on the region information, reads the correction
data from a lead out area or its outer region on the disk, temporarily
retains the read correction data in a first RAM or a second RAM, and then
stores the correction data to be resident in a nonvolatile first flash
memory or a second flash memory, to correct the reproducing program based
on the correction data. The information reproducing apparatus thereafter
reproduces user data recorded on the disk according to the corrected
reproducing program.