My iTunes says "Preparing iPhone for restore" but nothing is happening on the iPhone

I put my iPhone in the computer to restore it and i load the firmware 2.0.2 because i choose not to update, iTunes Gives me the message saying "Preparing iPhone for restore" but nothing is happening on the iPhone am i dong something wrong?

Are you trying to downgrade your iOS build? That is not possible.

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