Wipe all data without wiping Win 7

Could you please tell me the steps to wipe all programs and data from my Toshiba Satellite Laptop without deleting Win 7 operating system? Sure would appreciate the help. Thanks. Jay

If you want to give away the laptop, it's best to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media.
-Jerry

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Contact Apple (call AppleCare) and for a nominal fee the discs will be replaced. You can do that or purchase Snow Leopard (still availble from Apple for $20) and do an erase and install of OS X making the machine like a new machine.

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When you erase a drive, you can do it fast/non-secure or slow/secure. Choose the "secure" method and specify 1, 3 or 7-pass option. For large disk drives this can take a VERY VERY LONG TIME. But if you want to be safe, what's a day or two.
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If you choose the unsecure method (the default) it only initializes the information that says how many files are on the drive and where to start writing when new files are created. The actual part of the disk that had your old data is not even touched, so with the right kind of software that information is able to be recovered to varying degrees of success.
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I recently sold my iPhone 4s and followed the erase all content route but didn't stick long enough to see it through, and I found some iPhone data recovery app can restore deleted data from iPhone without backup files, so, I think we have to permanently erase everything from iPhone device before selling it, some “Deleted operation” really doesn’t erase all the data and it still out there, you cannot it.
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This is a Toshiba L655 laptop. I need to wipe off everything. But I don't want to delete the Win 7 operating system

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Wipe all data without wiping Win 7

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