IPhone won't sync with my new HP Windows laptop.

iPhone 5, Black, 16GB, IOS 8.1.3
I recently purchased a new laptop and installed iTunes right away! the problem is, a few min after I have connected my iPhone and it is supposed to be syncing music to the laptop, it keeps popping up with Error -54. which i guess just means it can't sync? So i uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes again several times and i still get the same message except only now it shows up in my music library but when you click on it, it skips to the next available song automatically. What do i do and how do i fix this?

Copy the iTunes library from your old computer to your new one. There are multiple ways to do this. Transferring it via the iPhone is NOT one of them. The iPhone is not a backup, or data transfer device.
See this article for a good step by step: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141

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