I lost my contact list while sychnorizing with windows address book

I have a 3g iphone. 2 days ago i wanted to sychnorize my contact list in my iphone to my desktop computer. So i opened itunes in my desktop and plugged in my iphone. Then i selected iphone from the left menu and in the info segment there is the contact sychnorizing, i opened it and selected all my contacts and windows address book. And then made the sychnorizing. After that i opened windows address book but it was empty, my contacts from the iphone has not come. After a while i realized that also my contact list on my iphone has gone. I have no backup of my contact list. I don't use iclouds. It backups on my desktop and i missed the chance to restore from backup after this mistake because i did sychnorizing after the mistake and it took backup on that one too. As itunes just holds the lastest backup. It would not include my contact list. So i restored the iphone to factory settings. But it didn't work either. Can u help me? All my contact list has gone.
Another question is i have the ios 4.2.1 running on my iphone and it made the phone very very slow for the past 1 year and i decided to restore it to the factory settings that maybe the operating system will return to the first one. This is the reason for my try to sychnorize my contacts to itunes on my computer before restoring it to factory settings.
Thank you,

Did you try and sync it with an address book on your computer that contained no entries at all?  If so, then they are gone.
IF you backed up the phone before trying to do this, you may be able to recover some of the information using 3rd party software to try and extract it from the backup. I have no personal experience with any of these programs, so I'll leave specific recommendations to others who do.

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