Syncing contacts from iPhone to new hard drive

The hard drive on our MacBook Pro died a few weeks ago, so we had it replaced. Now, when trying to sync my iPhone, I get a message that it's already synced to another iTunes library and it'll need to Erase the iPhone and then sync.
This is ok for music and apps that I've transferred already, but I'm afraid of doing this with the Contacts and Notes and losing everything.
If I do a backup, do I do the Erase and Sync and then restore from backup to keep my contacts? If not, what other options do I have? I can't lose my contacts and notes.

Welcome to the discussions,
you're on the right track, perform a manual backup and restore from that backup after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
To back up manually, make sure autosync is disabled in iTunes, connect your phone and right click on it in the device list, choose "backup".
Set up at least one contact and event on your Mac to make sure you're getting the merge prompt for contacts and calendars during the process.

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Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg
Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg

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