'Invalid Public Movie Atom' after moved movies across HDD's

hi all.
im kind of freaking out because i have just lost over 1TB of movies when purchasing a new usb HDD.
now all i did was copy the movies from 1 USB hdd to another USB hdd and now they won't work, i get the error 'Invalid Public Movie Atom' or 'this is not a movie file'.
They are all .mp4
i tried dropping one of them into visualhub and it came up with an error.
is there a way to recover or fix all my movies.
edit: one of the movies happens to work. i have moved my data to a WD MyBook mirror edition, its status currently is RAID 0 +HFS, the moveis were on a MyBook 1TB formatted MacOS Extended (journaled)
Message was edited by: j4y Gr4y

Hi,
I suggest to start looking at this:
http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/container%20structure%20correction.html
http://aeroquartet.com/movierepair/missing%20resource%20fork.html
'I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link.'
Regards, BJ

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