ITunes deleted my iPad drivers while updating software

If anyone can offer any insight into my problem, I would be so appreciative! I apologize for my lack of computer-savvy in advance.
I plugged my iPad2 into my computer (Windows Vista OS) to sync it, since I hadn't done that in about a month. iTunes informed me that a new iOS update was available, so I installed it. After iTunes prepared the iPad for the install, I received Error Message 1602 and the iPad screen displayed the "plug the USB into iTunes" icon. I followed the online troubleshooting instructions, but the iPad is undetectable by iTunes. Windows does recognize the iPad, and it asks for the recovery disc. If I had a recovery disc, I left it at home before I set off to China with the Peace Corps. I believe the closest Apple Store is in Shanghai, which will be impossible for me to get to.
The only thing my iPad will do now is show that "plug in the USB to iTunes" icon. If I try to put it in recovery mode, I only get that icon, and never the sliding bar. I don't know what to do! It would just kill me to have a worthless iPad sitting around my apartment until I can go back to America in two years. Does anyone know of anything I can do to get my iPad back?
Thanks,
Grace

If you didn't backup the iPad BEFORE you upgraded to IOS5, the photos have been lost to the cosmos. 
The upgrade erases your disk/flash.    Sorry.

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