My contacts suddenly disappeared from my iPhone today. When I tried to back it up and resync the phone it took away everything and went back to original setting that tells you to connect to iTunes. Unfortunatly now my computer is not recognizing the phone

My iPhone suddenly lost all contacts this afternoon. Hadnt even been using it.  When I tried to Back it up and resync on the computer it wanted to update after installing the update to the computer it crashed the phone. Now I have no assess to the phone. It has gone to the original setting that tells you  to connect to iTunes. iTunes does not recognize the phone any longer.

UNABLE TO RESTORE (connect to iTunes with cable logo)
If you are trying to restore and you device shows an image of a USB cable and connect to iTunes then carefully follow the steps in this article.  You may need to do is several times http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

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