Error -2048 and corrupted movies. Help!

I recently transferred several large quicktime movies from one firewire hard drive to another. Now, it appears they were corrupted during the transfer! They display an error -2048 and Quicktime "cannot understand" them.
It's hard to believe that an entire file can be corrupted and beyond repair after moving from one hard drive to another. Is there any program or method I can use to recover or repair them? Thank you

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Thanks for your response. I have inserted commentary below:
I am having
considerable difficulty in getting any of my
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