Hard drive replaced - How do I import music from my iPhone

Recently the hard drive on my computer crashed and was replaced with a new drive.    My music is on my iPhone.  I reloaded iTunes but can not figure out how to reload and sync with the iPhone.   The iPhone is looking for the old hard drive.   Help?

You don't restore it from your iPhone.  You restore it from the backup of your computer.
You were keeping a backup copy of all your data, right?

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