METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a substrate for a magnetic recording medium, which has a satisfactory plating thickness, adhesion, and uniformity and which can form a plating layer having satisfactory smoothness on a nonmagnetic substrate by an electroless plating method, when a glass substrate is used as the nonmagnetic substrate. SOLUTION: The method includes: a washing step S1 for washing the surface of the nonmagnetic substrate; a Ni adhesion layer forming step S2 for forming a Ni adhesion layer bonded to the surface of the nonmagnetic substrate after the washing; a Pd catalyst layer forming step S3 for forming a Pd catalyst layer bonded to the surface of the Ni adhesion layer; and a plating layer forming step S4 for forming the Ni-P plating layer on the surface of the Pd catalyst layer, as the catalyst, by the electroless plating method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI