Computer crashed can't backup iphone, HELP

OK, before people start posting on how could you do that and you always need to this or that's not apple's fault..I know, I know.
My computer crashed all together, didn't bother replacing the hard drive because it was time for a new one. It took some time to pick out the one I wanted and a few days prior to bringing my new laptop home, my iphone went swimming in a glass of water. The iphone was fried and I lost everything on it. My issue and question is now that I have a crashed hard drive which data can not be accessed and a soaked crashed iphone, is there a way to retreive my backups? I did routinely backup/sync my iphone on itunes, I never used a third party program for backup just itunes. I had heard that apple will do a one time download of my stored data back onto itunes on my new laptop which I can then authorize and sync to my new iphone???? Please help, I had over three years of pictures, sms, notes, songs, videos, and contacts..(honestly music/video isn't as much of a concern as the rest). Thanks for you help.

If you could retrieve the backup files from the hard drive you say failed, you might be able to retrieve those items by restoring from it. Without the backup that is on your dead hard drive, there is NO WAY to magically get this stuff back. THE BACKUP ONLY EXISTS on that hard drive. NOT in the cloud. If you don't have access to the physical backup files created the last time you synced and backed up with iTunes, then there is no way to get it back.

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2) incase F11 is not working and you have created the media, use your own recovert media which was created on same computer.
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143
alternatively, Please visit www.hp.com ; select country from the bottom left handside if you are outside USA.
now please select "support and drivers" > now click drivers & software> input model number of your computer. (if the list is populated incase similar models are there in this series, select the model you have)
select the OS you recieved this with computer and click next > now you should get one option "order recovery media - select that and under that you have type of media available. select and media you want.
incase you have issue in ordering media; you can try after sometime and/or contact HP support to get the media ordered.
also for few countries or products recovery order online may not be available; in such cases, please visit region/country website ( www.hp.com and select country). click connect with HP and contact HP. email/phone support numbers are available, please contact support team to place an order for your product in specific country(if available).
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Fortunately there are helpful people around such as wjosten to hep and not judge.
Not to mention saying things such as "It's also counterintuitive to believe that a cell phone is a backup device."
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