Method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

Abstract

There is provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium which can easily produce a magnetic recording medium, the magnetic recording medium having a plurality of magnetically separated recording layers suitable as the recording layers in a discrete track medium or patterned medium, and also having excellent surface flatness, in which spaces between the adjacent recording layers are filled in with a non-magnetic material. Such a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium is a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium () including: a step for forming a magnetic layer on top of a non-magnetic substrate (), and then forming a resist pattern constituted of a non-magnetic material on top of the magnetic layer; a step for forming a concave section (), which is to become a separation layer (), and a plurality of recording layers () that are magnetically separated in plan view by the concave section () by removing the magnetic layer that is exposed from the resist pattern; and a step for forming the separation layer () by melting the resist pattern to prepare a melted resist and filling in the concave section () with the melted resist, followed by curing of the melted resist.