Cannot restore my iPad, help please?

So my iPad was locked after repeated wrong password attempts and I had to restore my iPad. I had never synced it to my laptop before. So, I downloaded iTunes on my laptop and followed the steps to restore my iPad.
It said I need a software update for my iPad before I can restore so I clicked agreed. The update needs FOUR hours. 3 hours remaining and my iPad suddenly disconnects and the same message pops up again: "iTunes cannot connect to the iPad because it locked...you must enter passcode.."!
So okay, I go through the whole process again, put my iPad in restore, says I need to update software before I can restore, still says 4 hours again.
Then the message pops up again!! And I lose my progress on the software update for the third time. I'm so frustrated!! Please help!!

If you're unable to do the Restore, go into Recovery Mode per the instructions here.

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as with many people on here i think, i have reached a milestone frustration at apple and the way in which it is just not possible to tell whether something has hung and should be killed, or is just worked slowly. anyhoo... any help at all with this would be much appreciated. thanks for reading.
just got back from holiday and after a week have big iphone 4 problems....
itunes 10.3.1.55
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since getting back from vacation windows 7 HP has been updated to SP1 with some auto updates which i didn't much notice but may be at the root of this problem (and, if they are, then i am mad as **** with microsoft, naturally).
after this, i found that my phone worked fine but it had lost access to all of its itunes content i.e. no music, no videos. my contacts, photos, apps all seemed to be ok.
in the iphone window in itunes, and also in the iphone settings app, it showed that all of my music / videos were still there, i just could not access it / play it / see it through ipod app.
so, i tried few options from the web, basic stuff, to try to help the iphone remember its loaded content. no luck.
so, i decided to hit restore. first time it got stuck on 'restoring iphone software", no more than 10% of the way through.
i had to unplug it.
i turned the iphone off, shut-down and restarted the PC and tried again. same thing. i am now on my third attempt at this, but nothing is making any difference. when i plug it in it does recognise it and goes through steps like "verifying restore with iphone update server", "extracting software", etc, so it does know it is connected. it just cannot get past this point.
any suggestions on how to fix this would be very much welcome.
thank you in advance for your time.
steve

See Here
Unable to Update or Restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
If the device has been modified, this will not necessarily work.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
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1. Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
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