I was updating my iPod touch to 4.2.5 when an error occurred and now my iPod is not recognized by my computer or under devices in iTunes. My iPod is also stuck on a screen saying to connect to iTunes. I tried resetting my iPod and it did not work.

Please help! I was updating my iPod to 4.2.5 and iTunes said that it was preparing my iPod for update. Then an error popped up and now my computer won't recognize my iPod and it doesn't show up under devices in iTunes. All it has on my iPod is a picture of a USB cable with an arrow pointing to the iTunes logo. I tried resetting my iPod and it just restarts to the same picture. I tried restarting my computer as well.

What was the error number? That would be very useful since the following gives actions for various errors.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
Try manually placing the iPod in recovery mode to see if that will make the iPod visible in iTunes. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

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