Help adding my contacts back into iTunes

My hard drive crashed recently, so now that i have a new one I'm trying to add all of my old information back on my computer which includes what I had in my iTunes before. The music is easy, but when I plugged my iPhone in to update the software it wiped my iPhone clean. Now I have a file from my old hard drive of contacts my contacts that I would like to put back on the phone, but I can't seem to find a way to put them back into iTunes and I don't have Outlook or any other program to put the contacts in first. Does anyone know of a way to simply import the contacts from a file?

Unless you deleted the app, Windows Contacts is included by Microsoft with Windows. Do you have the Windows Mail application available, which is the name change for Outlook Express with Vista and Windows 7? If so, Windows Contacts is the separate address book application used by Windows Mail and with Outlook Express with previous Windows versions.
If you don't have Windows Contacts available which means you deleted the application - it wasn't removed by itself, you should be able to download the app from Microsoft's website and if not, you should be able to re-install the app from your Windows install disc.
iTunes did not access your contacts previously. iTunes does not store contacts. iTunes serves as the sync conduit for syncing contacts with a supported address book application on your computer only. Contacts are included with your iPhone's backup, which is updated by iTunes as the first step during the iTunes sync process, but the iPhone's backup is not stored in your iTunes library. That is it.

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