An information processing apparatus that can flexibly change an amount of data to be saved. A determining unit determines, at a time when the information processing apparatus is started up, whether termination processing has abnormally ended last-time or not. A detecting unit detects an instruction indicating processing that should be performed at the time of the start-up when the determining unit determines that the termination processing has abnormally ended last-time. A saving unit saves, under the instruction detected by the detecting unit, data stored in a save area determined by the instruction from among storage areas of a nonvolatile main storage device, to a save destination determined by the instruction.