Help Resynch Contacts and Calendar

I just recently reformatted my C drive and it seems like all my contacts and calendar events in outlook express got erased. I do have all of them still on my iphone though. Is there any way to put the contacts and calendar events back onto the computer from my iphone?

You can, but there is always the risk of losing data.
If you are working with outlook express, then the contacts are kept in windows address book, and I thought outlook express did not support calendars.
If you want to sync the data from your iphone back to outlook express, make sure that you have at least one contact in windows address book. This way itunes should ask if you want to merge data; otherwise, itunes will sync the data in windows address book to your iphone and effectively erase your data.
Now, if your using outlook 2003 or 2007 which does support calendars, the same applies. Make sure outlook has at least one contact in the contacts section and one event in the calendars section. This way, again, itunes should ask if you want to merge data.

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1) Turn off iCloud for Contacts on all devices. On the device that has the Contacts list that you would like to propagate to all others select to keep the contacts, and on the others select not to keep them.
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