TS1474 how to sync with another computer without losing contacts

i have got another laptop and when i connect it to my laptop it says it needs to erase whats on my phone and resync with the laptop.
any help on how i can sync to my laptop without losing anything.

The iPhone is not intended to sync to multiple computers, even if manually managed (unlike other iOS devices).
There is a workaround where you copy your iTunes library file from the computer you normally use to another computer, and boot the other iTunes with your library file.  You then update the "new" library on the other computer with whatever new files you want to transfer to the iPhone.  As long as your iPhone remains manually-managed, you should be able to drag and drop the new items to the iPhone.

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