HT1689 how do i restore my iphone 5 from a previous backup in itunes

I want to restore my iphone5 from a previous back up in itunes but when I plug my phone into my laptop and cancel the sync I can't find my phone? Help I'm new to itunes and iphone

You're welcome. If your phone is not showing under Devices on the left side of iTunes after connecting it, see the troubleshooting steps here:
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Then, I received an error message from iTunes saying that there was a problem with my iPhone & that I would have to restore it to factory settings. WTH!!!!
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Then, other anomolies surfaced, like photos missing, contacts missing, & worst of all the App that I used to store some really preceious pictures, photo vault, was also gone (and all my most precious pictures). Those pics were not in my camera roll any longer as I had moved them to this App.
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Hi all, I don't have a question - but merely a story of the solution I found to restore a previous backup from my wife's iPhone 5c that had some problems. Long story short, something got jammed with her Exchange email account settings and she lost all of her contacts and emails. Everything was fine on her work server (accessing the account using Outlook or the web app worked just fine). For whatever reason, this would not be fixed by deleting and recreating the Exchange account on the iPhone for some reason.
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Windows 8: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
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