Patent ID: 8901053

Claim:
A method for producing a perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk including a substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk having Ni—P containing layers as both outermost layers and a magnetic layer placed on one principal surface of the substrate for a hard disk or magnetic layers placed respectively on both principal surfaces of the substrate for a hard disk, the method comprising: a substrate formation step of forming the substrate for a hard disk; a cleaning step of cleaning the substrate for a hard disk; and a step of forming at least one of the magnetic layers, wherein the substrate formation step includes: a step of forming a base in which a metal plate is covered with a Ni—P plating coating; a step of subjecting a principal surface of the base to a chemical and mechanical polishing treatment using a polishing composition containing an abrasive; and a step of subjecting the base to a cleaning treatment after the chemical and mechanical polishing treatment, and wherein the substrate for a hard disk or the base is cleaned using an aqueous cleaning composition for a substrate for a perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk having Ni—P containing layers in the cleaning step performed between the substrate formation step and the step of forming at least one of the magnetic layers or the step of subjecting the base to a cleaning treatment performed in the substrate formation step, wherein the aqueous cleaning composition consists of a surfactant, water, an inorganic acid, and a component to be added arbitrarily, the aqueous cleaning composition does not comprise an abrasive, the aqueous cleaning composition has a pH at 25° C. of 5 or less, wherein the surfactant is at least one selected from the group consisting of: a cationic surfactant represented by the following Formula (1), an amphoteric surfactant represented by the following Formula (2), an amphoteric surfactant represented by the following Formula (3), an amphoteric surfactant represented by the following Formula (4), an amphoteric surfactant represented by the following Formula (5), and an amphoteric surfactant represented by the following Formula (6), wherein the component is at least one selected from the group consisting of a nonionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a silicon-based defoaming agent, a chelating agent, alcohols, a preservative and an antioxidant, and wherein assuming that a total of contents of components excluding the water is 100% by weight, a total of a content of the surfactant and a content of the inorganic acid is 90 to 100% by weight; in Formula (1), R 1 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16, and X is a halogen atom, in Formula (2), R 2 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16, in Formula (3), R 3 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16, in Formula (4), R 4 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16, in Formula (5), R 5 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16, in Formula (6), R 6 is an alkyl group having a carbon number of 10 to 16.