Putting Info from Iphone onto computer

I just had to have my computer serviced and the tech reformatted my hard drive trying to fix an apparent software program. Win 7, 32bit. I've got all the information including contacts on my iphone and want to get it onto the computer. Everything I find is for putting what's on the computer onto the iphone. I need to do it the other direction. I've done a LOT of work creating my contacts and do NOT want to have to re-type everything to get it onto the computer. I've not used outlook before but understand I can sync between them, so guess I can become a user if I have to...but I don't want to have to re-type 130 contacts with multiple phones, emails, and addresses. Please tell me there is a way to transfer into to the computer without losing it on the iphone.

By design, the iphone will sync itunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync such content with a second computer will result in ALL itunes content being first erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. This is a design feature and cannot be overridden. The itunes content sync is one way: computer to phone. If you have photos that were synced to your phone or music ripped on your own that were not backed up, you will first have to extract them from your phone using third party software:
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php
Once you've done that, do the following in the order specified:
1. Disable auto sync when an ipod/iphone is connected under preferences in itunes, which in windows is under the edit menu.
2. Make sure you have one contact & one event in whatever programs you use for that purpose on your computer. The entries can be fake, doesn't matter, the important point is that these programs not be empty.
3. Connect your phone, itunes running, do not sync at this point.
4. Store>Authorize this computer.
5. File>Transfer Purchases(To make sure all purchased content on your phone will be in your itunes library).
6. Right click in the device pane & select reset warnings.
7. Right click again and select backup.
8. Right click again & select restore from backup, select the backup you just made. When prompted to create another backup, decline.
9. This MUST be followed by a sync to restore your itunes content, which you select from the various tabs, You'll get a popup regarding your contacts & calendars asking to merge or replace, select merge.
Your contacts will now be in whatever supported application you use for that purpose on your computer.
That's as good as it gets without a backup of your itunes library.

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