IPhone Contacts Lost

While syncing my iPhone with my computer, I accidently lost all of my contacts. Is there a way to retrieve these contacts?

H, can you help me?
I sync'd my iphone contacts to my new laptop expecting it to sync my iphone to my laptop and my laptop to my iphone but my iphone has been cleared of most of my contacts. (I even went into my local telecom shop to check before doing this).
After the sync I unplugged my iphone and then plugged it in again and it did a second sync so I cannot restore my phone. (I have changed that setting - it won't just sync every time I plug in my iphone now).
I have searched for 'contacts' on my laptop and found many versions of a file that I wondered if it might contain my contacts:
com.apple.contacts - the file name is data.syncdb.
It has a few dates, some of them before my fatal sync so if its the right file I just need to find out how to read it.
I can't open the syncdb file and read it - I have tried opening it with notepad but it has loads of special characters so I'm not sure if it could be my contacts or not?
I don't have outlook on my laptop but do have Windows Live Mail and my contacts are not in Windows Live Mail.

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