Reformatted PC - now can't manually 'sync' music tracks.

I use iTunes and manually 'sync' my iPod & iPhone with my HP laptop - this has worked fine for years. I have now reformatted my laptop (with Win 7) and reloaded iTunes. Now for both devices, the music is greyed out and I can't change or add music tracks (manually) without iTunes wiping all the music. How can I now manually add/delete tracks?
Thanks.

Wow, that's ridiculous.
I don't understand why it wont just let me manually manage my music and videos, this is absolutely ridiculous.
I've never managed my iphone by syncing so why won't it let me just manually manage makes NO sense.
And because I have a ton of smart playlists on my iphone and I make my playlists on my phone because most of my playlists are smart playlists (Like for example I have my 4 star rated songs and 5 star ones)and I make my playlists mostly on the bus to school. I really don't want to lose my playlists my iphone is so properly organized and right now your saying I'm essentially going to lose all that if I want to add any more music.
This is unnacceptable apple.

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