ITunes won't recgonize iPhone after failed upgrade

I was trying to sync my iPhone 3GS when I was prompted to upgrade it. I went ahead and clicked yes to upgrade it. I left the computer and whe I returned about an hour later it asked me to enter my passcode so I did. Then it did its thing for about 30 minutes before telling me there was an unkwown error while upgrading it. During that time the screen on the iphone switched to the image of the usb cord with an arrow poining at the iTunes logo. I restarted my computer and disconnected and reconnected my iphone and now iTunes won't even read it and my iPhone won't do anything other than display that same image of the usb cord and iTunes logo. I'm totally frustrated here. Help! I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, iTunes version 10.6.1.7.
I know the cable is fine because it reads my iPhone 4S just fine. I tried restarting and relaunching iTunes and I've also tried holding the power button and home button down for 10 seconds and nothing on the phone's end.

Thanks, I tried this but also did not work. What finally worked was that on a whim I decided to switch to a different usb port and then it read it. I didn't try this at first because my other iphone was being read from the original port and the computer recognized both devices from that original port. It doesn't make sense. But I got it to finally work just by swtiching to a different port and now I can sync it from the original port.

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