Photos keep getting corrupted in Lightroom Catalog - Help!

Photos in my LR Catalog (usually over a year old) keep getting corrupted.  When I go to a dated folder, a strip comes up with the photos. Some of them are fine, some of them have an "!" on the photo saying "An error occured when working with this file."  So I try to "EDIT IN PS."  It will allow me to choose "Edit a Copy" and so when PS tries to open it, the error message says "The document may be damaged. File may be truncated or incomplete."  I open anyway, and it shows fine 2/3 or 3/4 of the way down, then it gets chunky....like someone cut off the bottom of the photo and bumped it up a bit.  I will attach a photo.  HOW can I keep this from happening???  I have my catalog on a Seagate external drive because my laptop can't handle all the space it would take up.  I always wait until it says I can eject, although it almost NEVER says that, even after being left for HOURS, so I shut down the computer, then unplug the hard drive.  I would love some help, because this keeps happening!!!

I tried opening one of the affected photos directly into Photoshop without using LR first.  It looks like this.

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