Please help! My itunes just stops during sync, but says "Sync In Progress"

Question

Ok I've tried syncing my iphone to itunes and it just says Sync in Progress. It never stops. Now it makes it through the "Backing up iPhone" portion but as soon as it gets to syncing contacts, it just sits there saying its "Syncing contacts with "iphone"". Now Im not sure why its doing this, this just happened out of nowhere, so I've even restored the phone twice, once as a new phone and then again with the option it left from restoring it the first time. It syncs the music, apps, and videos when I uncheck everything in the Info tab, such as contacts, calendar, etc. So its something to do with everything in the Info tab. But how do i fix this problem?? =\

Answer 1

It sounds like when replacing the hard drive for whatever reason your contacts were not loaded on your new drive.  Syncing the device does not put contacts on your drive.
If you still have the old drive, you could reinstall it and export the contacts from whatever contact management app you use, then remove the old drive and reinstall the new drive, importing the contacts back into your contact management app.
If you have your contacts backed up elsewhere, that would be the simplest solution.  Simply restore them or import them back into your contact management app.
Personally, I would not trust the iTunes backup as a solution for keeping my contacts.  I choose to use MobileMe and Google contacts to provide backups and sync points for my contacts.