How to sync an iphone 4 without losing everything? t

My laptop has recently broken (cracked HDD) it had to go off for repair, and they've given me a new one, but now my Iphone 4 has all the things - music, apps etc. on it but i currently can't sync it, how can i sync it without losing everything?

Yeah, the problem is I had a lot of music from lots of different places, CD's etc. which of course as i had a digital copy of, got rid of, Nightmare ! Guess i'll just have to start my music collection although first on the shopping list is an external hard drive !
Cheers both.

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