Ipone 5 stuck in recovery mode after failed update

Hi
I am stuck can anyone help?
My Iphone 5s tried to do a o/s upgrade while on holiday and got stuck in recovery mode saying it needed to connect to the pc. I connected waiting 1hr for the o/s software to download and extract only to see an error "The iphone "IPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (2005)." , I put the phone in
DFU mode and waited only to see the same error.
Help
I have followed a number of YouTube articles none fix the issue.
Alice

When your phone is in recovery mode, it's like it crashed. The only way that you can get it out of recovery mode is by restoring, and this erases all your data as well.
You can believe what you wish by "reading all over the internet". This is Apple's technical support forum. We do know what we're talking about.
since you have very important photos on your phone, why haven't you been importing them to your computer as soon as possible after taking them? This is how the phone is meant to be used. Keeping critical data on only a device which can be easily stolen, dropped and broken is just plain foolish. Also, did you not back up your phone (as you should be doing with any computer) before attempting any operating system update? As you've now just painfully learned, updates do not always go as planned.
I'm sorry for your data loss, but let this be a very important lesson. BTW, when was the last time you backed up your computer? I'm sure you have important data on your computer. Hard drives WILL fail.

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