Toshiba Laptop return - Data on hard drive secure wipe?

I am going to return my Toshiba L645-S4102 tomorrow for an exchange for different computer at Best Buy.
Since I did not burn recovery disks out of the box....yeah I know...     I am going to use the on-disk Toshiba Recovery Wizard to restore it to an out of box condition.
QUESTION is though, does the Toshiba utility provide enough wipe that MY data placed on the drive will be securely deleted when I return it?
I do not want to return it if my data is not removed first.  If I make recovery disks now that I have data on the drive, will it be transferred to the recovery DVD's, or will it just be the out of box recovery info there?
Thanks,
Bill

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