CAN THE IPHONE BE RESTORED FROM ANOTHER COMPUTER?

I plugged in my iPhone to my Windows 7 computer through the USB port.
iTunes ran and I proceeded to update the OS. This failed. Not Apples fault.
Rather, it's Microsoft's fault because there's a bug in their last Windows update where it disables USB ports.
The bug is: if I plug a device to a USB port, it's not recognized at all (nothing happens).
If the device was already plugged in when I turned on the computer, the USB port works.
However, if I then unplug that device and plug it back in, it doesn't work.
The USB where my iPhone was plugged in stopped working because I think the iTunes update turns the USB
port on and off.
Since the OS did not get installed, iTunes told me I must restore my iPhone to the factory settings.
That did not work because of the USB port problem. I could not even turn on my iPhone. It was totally non-functional.
I then went to my sons computer and did a restore, but because all of my data is on my computer,
I lost EVERYTHING. Or is it lost? I copied the music\itunes folder from my bad computer to my sons computer,
but when restore ran, it did not recognize this data, instead it recognized my sons iPod data.
My Question is: Is there a way to copy the iPhone data on my stricken computer and transfer that to my sons
computer where I can then do a restore using that data?
Can I just manually copy a folder from the broken computer to the good computer?
Thanks.

Actually, never mind. I was able to get the procedure for using the terminal to format partitions of a specific size, and found out that the EFI partition is automatically generated when partitioning the drive, so I only had to create a 400 MB Recovery partition (although I couldn't get it smaller than 528 MB), a 900 MB OSBoot partition, and the rest as Media. Using Disk Utility, I recovered the downloaded disk image to the OSBoot partition, reconnected the hard drive, plugged in the AppleTV and let her rip.
Flashing question mark gone, although for some reason it initially booted in recovery mode, where I was supposed to be able to restart, run diagnostics, or restore firmware to factory resets. Diagnostics ran fine, but I was not able to restore to factory resets. Nevertheless, when I restarted again, the AppleTV worked fine. I even downloaded a couple of updates, viewed some trailers, etc.
This was fun! Thanks for your help!

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