Concerns with re syncing my iPhone?

Basically, i have had to reformat my PC because i got a virus from somewhere. I have connected my iPhone to iTunes but its asking me to resync it. I have no problem with this as all my music was backed up but what i am concerned about are my contacts and messages saved on the phone. If i resync my iPhone, will i lose all the contacts and messages, and if so do you know of any way to back this up before i do it?? I obviously can't restore the old back up as that was deleted during the reformat of my PC.... I dont have a mobile me account or anything like that, the contacts have all been inputted manually since getting the phone.
Thanks

Messages on your iPhone are not included with the iTunes sync process, except for being included with your iPhone's backup as the first step during the iTunes sync process.
When transferring iTunes content and photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased from your iPhone first. Your computer is detected as a new or different computer after the hard drive being reformatted, but your iPhone is not completely erased of all content. Contacts and calendar events are designed to be synced with a supported application on your computer but if nothing is selected for this under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, contact and calendar events are not touched on your iPhone.
With Windoze, you can sync contacts with Outlook 2003 or 2007 along with syncing calendar events, or you can sync contacts only with Windows Contacts - the address book used by Outlook Express or by Windows Mail depending on the Windoze version.
IMO, all contact info should be available on your computer regardless if you have an iPhone or not, and it isn't a good idea to depend on your iPhone or any cell phone for this data which can be lost of stolen.
If you don't have Outlook 2003 or 2007 available and you don't use Windows Contacts - the address book is empty, before syncing contacts enter one contact in Windows Contacts. Make the contact up if needed, which can be deleted later. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select. Syncing contacts with Windows Contacts is selected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.

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Damon M.
This helped meRe: "iPhone disconnected" error in iTunes
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