A method for recording and reproducing for an information recording disk-shaped medium, in which the information recording medium comprises a substrate with a magnetic recording layer disposed thereon for magnetically recording information, the magnetic recording layer being in advance magnetized concentrically or spirally around a center of the substrate for tracking and being disposed in such a manner that magnetized regions magnetized in different directions are alternately arranged in a radial direction of the substrate, and discrete servo fields being in advance magnetically recorded in the magnetic recording layer, is used, comprising:
- at least one of recording and reproducing information, while performing tracking based on a difference in the directions in which the magnetized regions of the magnetic recording layer are magnetized;
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- performing sector servo based on the discretely recorded servo fields.