Wiping out laptap and installing fresh Windows 7 Ultimate

I want to do this:
Wipe out my Lenovo Thinkpad X220 HDD and install a fresh operating system, so please provide me with step by step process and what are the things to do before wiping out my laptap.
What I have:
1. 4GB usb with Windows 7 installer
2. My laptap have 1 hdd, partitioned into two
 a. 97.9 GB ( where my OS is installed)
 b. 200 GB (where my personal files is stored)
How to wipe out my laptap, delete partiton and delete all data and instal fresh OS, Bios etc.?
Thank you.
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Hello,
In that case, what you want to do is run a program which sends an ATA SECURE ERASE command to the hard disk drive, which tells the embedded controller in the drive to basically purge the contents of the drive.  When it's finished running, there will be no information left on the disk.
If you are comfortable with Linux, this can be done by running the HDParm command.  The  Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UC San Diego has released a Secure Erase program which can be run from DOS.  There's also the Parted Magic Linux Live CD/USB, which creates a bootable CD/DVD/USB flash to boot from, but it's not free.
Another option would be to run Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN).  This program does not perform an ATA SECURE ERASE command, but instead overwrites all of the areas on the disk so that no information will be retrievable.  When finished, you will have a blank drive as well.
At that point, you can just boot off of your Windows 7 installation USB flash drive and load the operating system onto the now-empty hard disk drive inside the ThinkPad X220 as you normally would.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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