Please help, My Ipad won't restore after update!

Itunes starts to restore then stops with no error message. the ipad is completely useless. I've restarted and reset several times and ive changed USB ports. It is recognised in iTunes and begins to restore, the ipad shows the progress bar, which also just freezes with no error message.

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