IPhone Looping in iTunes - asking to restore

I tried to dock my iPhone to my Mac and found that it continually says:
An iPhone has been previously synced with this computer.
It gives me 2 options:
1. Set up as a new iPhone
2. Restore from the backup
I choose option 2, the iPhone indicates it is restoring then it reboots. After it comes backup and mounts in iTunes, I get the same messages all over again.
Apparently an infinite loop
Anyone else have this issue?

I know what to do:
Take iPhone out of cradle
Reset it (Home+Sleep/Wake)
Go to Prefs, iPhone, Erase Backup History (in iTunes)
Re-sync and choose create a new backup
That should do it. This happened to me too

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deborahfromwindsor wrote:
he advises restarting by inserting the OSX disc and pressing down the C button to reboot from there then selecting disk utility, hard disk and repair.... Does he mean me to hold down the C key on the alpha keyboard or the ctrl key?
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Windows has drive letter problems, so this was really the problem. Nothing wrong with the iPod to begin with. When you connect a piece of removable media(flash drive, iPod, etc.) to a USB port in Windows, Windows has to assign a letter to the drive as you are probably familiar with seeing in My Computer. Well, the problem is sometimes Windows forgets that it already assigned a letter to something else and it refers to the new device by the old devices drive letter causing the problem. Essentially iTunes thinks there is a problem because Windows is malfunctioning and referring to two different hardware items with the same name.
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Phil0124 wrote:
I doubt the phone is locked to GCI in any way
Well, you're wrong, & in fact not only is it locked, GCI does not offer unlocking for iPhones.
Fact is your post won't help the OP.
And you are 100% sure its locked to them? How can you know this? While GCI does not offer unlocking that does not mean the phone is actually locked to it. Get off your high horse.
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