I had to reformat my PC and now it wont let me add music to my iphone.

I recently had to reformat my PC since I got a nasty virus. After getting my comp up and running again I went online to download itunes. I installed it without any problems, but when I tried to hook my phone up to it, I found out I can't put any additional songs onto my phone (I can view all pre-existing songs) unless I wanted to wipe the phone clean. There has to be a way to do this without me losing all of my music. Thanks for your help.

All troubleshooting steps to try and resolve the issue for activating iMessage can be found in the link below:
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