My PC just crashed, so iTunes too. Backup my iPhone?

Hi,
I used to sync my iPhone with iTunes on my home PC. Yesterday my PC crashed. I had to restore, so I've lost iTunes and the phone backups.
Now when I want to sync my iPhone on the same PC, I get the iTunes a message, something like that : "your iPhone is synced with an other library... this will erase your data ...".
Do somebody know how I can sync my iPhone without losing data ?
Thanks.

Hi,
For your medias (movies, music), you will have to right-click on your iphone in the new iTunes and click on "Transfer Purchases".
For your photos and videos, you can make a backup manually through iPhoto on a mac or the explorer on a PC.
Then, for your personal data as contacts, calendars, settings,... you will have to right-click on your iphone in iTunes and click on "backup".
Finally, you can restore your iphone with the backup you've just created and sync back all your medias and photos, you've previously backed-up in iTunes. That's what I've done.

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