Ipod is not leting me sync

ok when i hit sync a message pops up saying the ipod is synced with another itunes library do you want to erase this ipod and sync with this itunes library? and that it can only be synced with one library at a time and asks if i want to replace the things on my ipod with whats on my library. i dont want to so how can i sync my ipod without deleteing every thing from my ipod?

You only restarted the computer?
If that is the case, then all info is still on the computer. Why would you lose anything?
It will just erase and re-sync the same information from you computer.

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