According to the present invention, is allowed to store, in a hard disk drive, only a driver and an application which are necessary for a peripheral device connected a personal computer, the area in use of the hard disk drive is reduced. An information processing apparatus comprising first storing unit storing therein a basic program which is executed on a computer connectable to a peripheral devices, peripheral device associated programs which is executed when the peripheral devices is in use, and an identification program for identifying a type of the peripheral device connected to the computer and control unit executing the basic program, the peripheral device associated programs, and the identification program, wherein the control unit includes unit storing the type of the currently connected peripheral device through the execution of the identification program and unit storing, from second storing unit storing therein the plurality of peripheral device associated programs, the peripheral device associated programs which is associated with the currently connected peripheral device in the first storing unit through the execution of the basic program.