Help!!   I got a Brick

After updating itunes And iphone, Its now a brick.
itunes will read the phone but it's in some recovery mode.
itunes tries to recover it; but gets stuck at the end and will run for hours tring to verify it....??
Do I need to take it to be serviced????
I never had any problems With updating before.
But my old itunes was lost when i had to erace my hard drive, am i screwed???

This article will give you some steps to go through for resolving the issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275

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