According to one embodiment, a disk drive is provided which corrects already existing offset information according to a variation of a disk runout amount caused by an occurrence of a disk shift. The disk drive effects a head position adjustment at a head positioning control time with the use of offset information stored in a memory. A CPU measures a variation in the disk runout amount and phase caused by an occurrence of a disk shift resulting from an external shock involved and updates the existing offset information with a correction offset information based on a result of measurement.

 
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