Reflashing HDD Firmware

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    I have a 40GB Western Digital hard drive that has firmware corruption to the extent where:
    Windows and the BIOS knows the model number of the drive
    The drive spins up
    Windows/Linux/PS3 will not see the drive though in Disk Management.

    Is there any utility I can use to reflash the firmware on the drive?

    Here are firmware files for my HD, how do I flash these?
     
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    have you checked the wd site?
     
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    Yes and I found nothing.
     
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    you didn't post the firmware files.
     
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    what file(s) do you get when you open the rar file?
     
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    .MO1 to .M29 files.
     
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