Phone Stuck on blach screen with Spinning Wheel

Iphone 3G stuck on black screen with spinning wheel and unable to hard reset plug or unplug with PC.
I tried holding both home/off for 10 sec, 20 sec, 2 min nothing.... Itunes can't read my iphone and nothing happen to the phone....
I saw somewhere to wait for a flash pf the apple logo on screen every 10 min and reboot but after looking at the screen for 30 min non stop, no apple logo....
Please help because I don't want to change my iphone right now because i'm waiting for the iphone 5....

i refirmated all teh drives and started over three months later one of the two drives died completely.. M

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