Restore contacts from iTunes (lost contacts)

Hi,
Yesterday I was playing with iTunes and I don't know what happened and I lost all contacts from iPhone. I know I tunes took backup at 2P.M , at 6P.M and again 7P.M. Last time I see contacts in my phone was before 2 p.m
When I try to use restore from back I only see two entries in the drop down 6p.m and 7p.m.
How do I force iTunes software to search specific file in the back-up folder?
How to even make sure there are contacts in 2p.m backup folder?
Can anyone help please?
Thanks

Yes the 6PM backup files merely replaced the one from 2PM, which means blank contact had replaced your previous contacts on the phone.
The only possibilty to get your contact back may be, is to restore your Windows operating system back to the time before you did the sync.  Refer to this link for explanation.  But you may need someone good in computer knowledge to get you through with it.
http://ask.metafilter.com/175169/Restoring-iPhone-contacts-after-backup-mishap
Now you have learned your lesson, in future, you should always enable sync contact with either Outlook, Yahoo or Google Conacts so that you always have another copy of contact should any mishap happening like this one.

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