My lap top crashed. How do I sync phone to new laptop?

My laptop craped the bed and I'm trying to sync iPhone to my wife's laptop, but it's not working. I don't understand why. What am I doing wrong??

You should always maintain a back up of important info/music/pics on an external drive, dvd, etc.
You should never only have data in one place only.
The iphone music sync is one way.
You can transfer itunes purchased music. In itunes, with iphone connected, click file>transfer purchases.
If you enter at least one contact and calendar entry, you will get the option to merge the data at the first sync.

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