Please help - need to restore my iPhone

When plugging my iPhone into computer for the first time, I accidentally restored my iPhone with my fiance's for the backup. I freaked out and unplugged it halfway through the restoration. Now I have half of his settings/apps/contact info. and half of mine. I lost a lot of important contacts and notes. Please help - how do I restore my phone back to MY settings?

Ekk, if you told it to restore his backup it would more than likely replace your information with his... Since this is your first time syncing your phone it likely hadn't made a backup of your device. You can check by opening iTunes, go to "Edit", "Preferences", click the "Devices" tab and see what's in there for backups.
If there is nothing in there for you phone, there isn't really many other options to get those contacts back unless they are still on your computer or old phone somewhere.
Out of suggestions you can do a few things to prevent this happening in the future, like setting up a seperate user account in Mac OS X/ Windows and syncing there or setting up some kind of automated sync like Goggle sync http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252  or Apple iCloud which will come out later this year.
Sorry to hear, hope you have another copy around.

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