A recording and reproducing method for an optical information recording medium in which a light beam is irradiated to change a state of a photo-sensitive record layer, wherein write data to be recorded into each sector of the optical information recording medium includes a synchronizing signal, a data head indicating mark added to the end of the synchronizing signal, original write data following the data head indicating mark, and dummy data added to the end of the original data, and wherein a length of the dummy data in each sector is altered in predetermined range at every recording, and wherein an average length of the dummy data is altered according to a record radius.