IPhone Restore + Pairing record missing.. HELP!!!

I restored my iPhone 4S and when it restarted, I got an error message stating "iTunes could not connect "iphone" because pairing record is missing"... I have restarted my computer numerous times and reinstalled my itunes twice. My iphone is now blank and won't connect... PLEASE HELP

I had the same problem (pairing record missing) and was finally able to fix it. My host computer is a Windows 7 64-bit setup. I kept reading where others solved the problem by eliminating the Lockdown folder, but I couldn't find that folder in Windows. But it was there in the following location:  C:\ProgramData\Apple\Lockdown. After closing iTunes, I simply renamed the Lockdown folder to Lockdown.old and restarted iTunes. I then plugged in my iPhone USB connection and it worked. (Changing the folder name required Administrator privilige.)

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