Syncing iPhone (how to not loose data?)

I have just reinitialized my disk I was using to sync to my iphone, and completely reinstalled a fresh system. Now I'm trying to get my iphone data off my phone (like contacts) and onto my computer, how do I do this without loosing them? Can I sync my mac with my iphone and have the new mac get the iphone data and have none of it deleted off the phone?
If I loose this data off the phone I will have lost a great many things I need.

Yes, you can. Make sure that your address book and calendar have at least one new entry in them.
When you sync the iPhone for the first time it will prompt you to either override the iPhone or Merge the information. Select merge.

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forrestp wrote:
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