Please help! iPhone gone into recovery mode

Hoping someone can help me, getting worried!!  I just plugged my iPhone 4s into my Windows computer to update and sync etc as I hadn't for a while.  During the updating and backup process, my phone just went into recovery mode, it disappeared from the devices menu and a message box came up saying 'iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.  You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes.'  My phone screen is stuck on the iTunes logo with the usb picture.  I have tried restarting my computer, holding down both buttons on the phone etc but it just stays the same....any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

See Here  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
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