Iphone restore stuck on ''Verifying Iphone Restore "

Iphone is in recovery mode and the screen is unresponsive unless i plug it in and start the update and restore on itunes then the apple symbol shows up . But half way through the restore is gets stuck on "Verifying Iphone restore" . I have tried it on 3 different Windows xp computers no luck still gets stuck at the same point . I also have left it over night on the step and still no luck .. I dont know what else to do . . any ideas please help Thanks
Message was edited by: helpmee012

Thanks for the link to that troubleshooting article elsewhere on the Apple site. That worked for me, but not until the very last step (before calling Apple). I did a complete uninstall of iTunes and tried to uninstall the AppleMobileDevice extension as well. Only then did the restore work.

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