IPhone 4 Stopped Working since attempting to Install iOS 4.2

Hi, I have attempted to install iOS 4.2 tonight and it seems to have stopped my phone from working.. All i have on the screen is the iTunes icon and an image of the USB cable?
If i connect my iphone to my laptop it makes a beep (3 times) and then nothing happpens.
Before i downloaded and tried to install iOS 4.2 my iphone was working as i would expect it to on iTunes 10.
Can anyone please help me get my phone back and get me updated?
Thanks guys!
Steven

i would not be that hot on windows platform, but i wonder would a restart of your laptop help ?
did you manage to download the 4.2 file ?
if so was the phone connected when it was downloading ? its possible itunes has indeed downloaded the 4.2 file but the phone is stuck in recovey mode. if so then you can download tinyumbrella and when you run it there will be an option to kick out of recovery mode. might be worth a try.
NOTE
if you run tinyumbrella it may add the gs.apple.com entry to your hosts file, so
if you use tinyumbrella to boot iphone out of recovery, make sure to disable "edit host file" in advanced options or it'll re-write it each time you launch it and youll have same problem again....
one other thing, you say you " searched " for the gs.apple.com entry....did you actually open the hosts file in notepad and look ?
if possible can you post up a screenshot of your hosts file.
sorry for all the questions but it might give me some clues
ps
you could try this courtesy of Leonard.dk on another thread...
1. connect the dead phone to another pc with itunes turned on
2. follow the notifications on that itunes
3. restore the phone
4. disconnect the phone after the restoration without clicking any buttons of that itunes
5. connect the phone to my own pc
6. my own pc can recognize the phone and itunes will try to restore the backup of my phone
7. restore from the backup on my pc
8. sync everything (tick all the apps in itunes manually since there is no such button to select all) and reorganize all the apps
9. after ca. 25 min, the phone is back to the previous sw version
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