My iphone is saying "restore needed"

My Iphone is saying Restore needed, but my phone has a password and will not let me get into itunes, i cannot do anything with the phone, how do i restore??
Help!

The passcode is needed only when you try to restore unsing a computer the phone never synced with before.  Restore using the computer you sync with.
Questions:  Why don't you know your own passcode, and why don't you have possetion of the computer the phone syncs with?

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