iTunes crashes and accidentally disconnecting the iPhone or iPod touch Dock cable are common reasons for incomplete data restoration, and clicking Stop
in the iTunes restoration progress dialog will kill the process, too.
Resuming an interrupted data restoration.
To pick up where you left off, just reconnect your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer. iTunes should display a dialog asking if you want to resume the data restoration. Click Continue Restore
.
This trick works great if your iPhone or iPod touch completed the iOS upgrade process before being interrupted. If something went wrong during the OS upgrade, you may have to start over by clicking Restore
under iTune’s Summary tab.