Devestated by dissapearing Quicktime files! Help!

Hi,
I've been editing a short film for a few days. Turned my computer on today and all the files have gone offline... No problem, I go straight to the files to reconnect but it tells me that the file 'does not have proper content to reconnect'. So i go into my capture scratch and every single quicktime file for that project is the same size (204kb)... It would appear that they've all gone!? I've got other projects working either side of this one that have been unnaffected.... I'm devestated!
I would really appreciate any help anyone has... it really doesn't seem to make any sense! The only time i've ever had anything like this was when my second hard drive came loose in transit... but that affected everything on the drive, this is very isolated.
Thanks so much for reading
Dan

Have you tried repairing the problem hard drive in disk utility? Is recapturing the media an option?

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