Help with Locked Original iPhone

my girlfriend has two iphones, an old-school original and a 3g iphone. the original is unlocked and was operating on t-mobile. 3g iphone is on a normal att contract.
i was updating her stuff, and i idiotically plugged in the old iphone into itunes. it goes thru downloading new firmware process, then i get the window that says please insert valid SIM card. now the phone is only under emergency mode. the firm on the old iphone was 1.1.x. it was updating to 2.2, but i don't know if it is actually the new firmware now. also, i believe the installation process says it was backup in the device, but what does that include and how can i restore from that particular backup?
i dont want to unlock phone using software because there is a ton of contacts and txt messages that need to be saved because they are not backed up (she will kill me). she never syncs her iphone. so i was wondering if this alternative would work:
would using the sim card from the iphone 3g activate the old phone without deleting any of the information on the phone? or does the (re)activation process purge the hard drive? any guidance on my situation is appreciated.

mikekul wrote:
would using the sim card from the iphone 3g activate the old phone without deleting any of the information on the phone? or does the (re)activation process purge the hard drive? any guidance on my situation is appreciated.
No, it would be activated as a new phone and you would lose any content on it. When you restored it you essentially wiped it, so there is no way to recover content. BTW, there is no hard drive in an iPhone; it's all solid state memory.

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