My iPhone 4 is stuck in recovery mode & won't restore/update?

So today I decided to update my iOS software from iOS 5.1.1 (I believe) up to iOS 6. As ordinary, I open iTunes, download the update and attempt to update my phone. As it was updating it looked as if everything was going well until when it was close to finishing I had gotten an error message that had said that my iPhone could not be updated due to an error. It said that my phone was in "Recovery Mode" & that it needed to be restored before it could be updated. I attempted to restore it, but once it was done trying to restore I had gotten this error message:

"The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An unknown error has occurred (-1)."

I have no idea what to do. Every time I try to restore it, I get this message. Without restoring it now I can't use it. Please help me!

I have the most updated version of iTunes & I'm using a PC.
Now it's stuck on the screen where it is telling me to connect to iTunes.
I have changed the USB port the wire was in, restarted my computer, and still nothing.
Every answer is appreciated!

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