IPad Stuck in Recovery Mode - Help!!!!!

Problem 1: My iPad apps and movies are on an external drive because the space on my iMac internal SSD is only 256GB. My iTunes Media Folder [500GB of apps and movies] is a lot larger than the internal SSD can hold. When I plugged in my iPad and tried to update it from the external drive, disaster struck. All my data, apps, and movies deleted, Gone!!!!!
Problem 2: The iPad is stuck in an endless Recovery Mode loop. When I connect the iPad to iTunes a prompt pops up that says “iTunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPad before it can be used with iTunes” When I click OK another prompt pops up that says “Are you sure you want to restore the iPad to its factory settings” When I click on the Restore and Update button I’m confronted with the following error from iTunes: “The iPad could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9)”
When I click OK I get the same prompt pop up that says “iTunes has detected an iPad in recovery mode. You must restore this iPad before it can be used with iTunes” It’s an endless loop I can’t seem to fix. My iPad is now useless and there is no iOS on it. Please Help.

As Diavonex said, Error 9 is usually the result of security software getting in the way. Read more about it here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US#9
Check your security software and settings as Apple suggests in this post: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3125

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