Syncing contacts from Iphone to new pc, NO OUTLOOK , MobileMe?

Ok so I have an Iphone 3GS and my hardrive on my computer crashed losing all my itunes data. I was able to use 3rd party software to retrieve my music and video, and I was able to transfer all my purchases onto my new computer's itunes which runs windows 7.
However, the problem is that I know if I try to sync my contacts it will lose all 275 of my contacts. Also..because of how Office 2010 is, I don't have outlook on this new computer (I have home and student edition of windows). Can i even bring my contacts over if it no longer will be syncing with outlook?
I know MobileMe is a way of retaining contact information, however i haven't installed it or purchased it before my old harddrive crashed. If I purchase MobileMe now, and install it...If I try to sync my phone..will it pull over my contacts from my phone and keep them? Or will it also erase all my contacts and start from scratch.
Please help, I'm open to all suggestions.
Thanks,

You can sync contacts with Outlook, or with the address book application used by Outlook Express with XP and by Windows Mail with Vista and Windows 7 which I believe is called Windows Contacts or Windows address book.
Before syncing contacts with the Windows Contacts application, enter one contact in the application on your computer. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select.

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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.
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So this is basically a continuation of bsohl's thread Syncing Contacts FROM iPhone?.
For those of you that are in a similar situation to this:
1. You're on a PC.
2. Your primary storage space for contacts is your phone.
3. Your email client isn't compatable with ITunes.
4. You want to back up your contacts.
Follow these few steps to make your backup happen:
1. Sign up for a new yahoo email address.
2. In the info tab in ITunes select Sync Contacts with Yahoo Address Book.
3. At the prompt enter in your new yahoo email address and password.
4. Hit 'apply'. At this point you may have to hit sync or it might just do it automatically. I can't remember.
Here comes the magic
5. You will see the following prompt: http://a425.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/89/l_dfc21c0b2fd5015780fbaad7fddb3 798.gif
6. Select 'merge'.
7. Wait a few seconds.
8. Check your contacts in your yahoo email account and they should all be there.
9. Sweet!
10. Good luck.
-Arthur
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Do the same to transfer your purchases by choosing "transfer purchases" this time.
When you connect your phone for the first time, all media content will be erased. But you can restore your settings and app data from your manual backup afterwards.
Don't forget to set up at least one contact and event on your new computer to be able to merge calendars and contacts when you sync the phone for the first time.
About backups and what's saved: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
How to back up and restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg
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3/28/08 2:45:54 AM AddressBookSync[315] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'
3/28/08 2:45:54 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[176] 2008-03-28 02:45:54.040 AddressBookSync[315:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'

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I've inadvertantly deleted half my contacts from outlook in my PC. My iphone has full list of contacts but before I try and sync I want to be absolutely sure the deleted contacts sync from my iphone to pc and not the other way round.
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