ITunes still won't recognize my iPhone after I've followed every step

I purchased an iPhone4 off of a friend, he had completely restored it back to its factory settings before he sold it to me.
When I connected it to my iTunes it had asked to update it, so I did to 6.1.3. Now Every time I plug it into my computer it asks me to restore it, I click restore and it says it's updating, takes 4 hours then says there was an error. I've googled this and gone through all the steps and nothing is working. My iTunes still won't recognize my iPhone.
I had tried it on my brothers iTunes and it says "pairing record missing"
I also looked that up, followed all the different steps and nothing helped.
I've tried updating my iTunes, every time I try it crashes and says it "failed to install". nothing at all is working and I'm getting very frustrated and losing my faith in apple...
If anyone has any other idea, or advice, PLEASE let me know. it would be greatly appreciate.
Thank you
btw: I've tried the unplugging, rebooting, bluetoothing, everything I saw in the other forums and nothing helped.

why would your be frustrated and losing your faith with Apple?  Sounds like your friend sold you a jailbroken phone.

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