Abstract: A method and apparatus of reproducing and recording data stored in a plurality of tracks of a memory. A recording and reproducing head reproduces data from at least one of a plurality of tracks of a disk-shaped recording medium. The reproduced data is stored in a memory and rewritten. Data is read out of the memory and controllably supplied to a recording operation of the recording and reproducing head so that data of every track read out from the memory is recorded on the disk-shaped recording medium. In a preferred embodiment, the reproduced data is stored, rewritten read out from the memory in response to an index signal representing a starting portion of a track and then recorded on a magnetic floppy disk.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus data is recorded in the trailing portion of an area erased by an erase magnetic head, thereby surely extracting a regenerative clock at the reproducing time so that the operation of a regenerative clock system can be stabilized.