Error code -50 when transferring external hard disk

I repeatedly encountered this error -50.
I have paragon 9.01 that runs for OS X Lion and only get this error when I tried to back up my external volumes in preparation for a wipe on them.
Any help on this error code?
PS. The external volumes has been verified and fixed by disk utility already!

Updates:
I've fixed it, in a sense.
Used my brother's win7 machine to back up files on the external disks,
used my mac to format the external harddisks to exFAT
transferred files on win7 to the new exFAT disks
and everything worked nicely.
Given, exFAT is not a good choice for backups but that's the choice I have now currently.

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