My computer crashed, trying to backup contacts on iPhone

My computer crashed and i bought a new hd.
Then the problem is that my iPhone is sync'd with the old harddrive.
I tried to find out if it were any help to look under "help" in iTunes, but there it says the safetybackup only takes the "favourite contact's"
stupid if i need to mark 3-400 contacts as favourite to backup...
In big need of help
-mAgz

Would be very happy if someone could help me! =)

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