Trouble syncing music from iTunes to my iPhone 4S

Hello all,
I currently have an iPhone 4S and previously was using a laptop that had itunes installed with my own library and my computer was authorized with my itunes account. My computer crashed and the motherboard was fried so I had to switch to an old computer I used to use 3-4 years ago. I was able to save the hard drive on the old computer and whenever I want to pull stuff from my old computer's hard drive I can hook it up to my "older" computer by USB.
The problem I am having is when I am using itunes and I want to add music to my iPhone 4S it is giving the me circle with the line through it and won't let me add music from my computer's library to the iPhone.
When I try and click on my device tab and click on "my iphone" under the summary tab I try and check the "manually manage music and videos" and click apply but it gives me the following message:
"The iPhone "Nathan's iPhone 4s" is synced with another iTunes library on "NATHAN-PC". Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?"
'NATHAN-PC" refers to my PC where the motherboard crashed and I have all my old data my hard drive that was recovered.
Does anyone know how to change the settings on my "older" laptop to make it so that it syncs with my old iTunes library (on the computer that crashed) so that I am able to add music again to my laptop... and not have to erase my current iPhone music!
Thanks!

I too have just encountered this problem with the slight difference that when trying to sync entire music library, the only things that make it across to my phone were my most recent additions to the itune library (all from cds).
I am currently trying a manual sync, but selecting all the genres which so far seems to be working. For some reason that does not seem to include all the music, so watch this space!!!

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