Syncing to a new PC without erasing everything on iphone 5?

I got a new PC after my old one got a virus. Now when I plug in my iphone 5, it tells me that it is synced to another computer (aka my old one) and syncing to the new one will erase everything on the phone. How can i avoid this? I have always manually synced my iphone so not everything is saved to my itunes, especially now that I have a new PC. Help please!! I'm just trying to add music to my iphone, but i don't want to lose all my apps, contacts, photos, etc.

Hi there.
In case you can still turn on the old PC, i might suggest the steps I used two years ago to solve a very similar situation:
I copied on a usb pen the entire content of user/Music/iTunes
I then installed the same version of iTunes on the new PC, and I went to user/Music.
I did rename the existing iTunes directory as iTunes_backup, and copied the one I extracted from the old PC into Music (of course, a scan with an updated antivirus would be good...)
After turning on iTunes again, mostly of my settings, apps and music were there and I kept syncing with the same iPhone without loosing any data.
I don't know if that's gonna work on a newer version of iTunes, but I hope you can solev it in this way.
PS Back then I did also backup and transfer the whole content of c:/programs/itunes and any othe data I couldfind, but I worked out that just copying the libraries would be enough.

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