To make effectively utilizable a more inexpensive recording medium.

In an apparatus presented in this invention for recording information data onto a recording medium with a first recording area wherein data rewriting is limited to a predetermined number of times and a second recording area wherein the number of times of rewriting data is not limited, the recording apparatus is provided with a recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing the information data onto and from the recording medium, and a control means for controlling the recording and reproducing means to reproduce the instructed information data from the second recording area and to record the information data into the first recording area in accordance with a protect instruction of the information data recorded in the second recording area.