Jpg files are becoming corrupt

I am a photographer with thousands of photos on my external hard drive. Over the past month or so, I have lost access to many of my jpg files. The icon no longer appears with a thumbnail of the photo... only the icon appears with the title of the file. I can't open these files with the Preview, and my Photoshop can't open them either. The message I get is, "Couldn’t open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize."
Questions:
1. What can I do to stop this from affecting more of my photos?
2. How can I recover the jpg files that are lost?

Leopard should be able to read and write to the Fat32 drive. However some programs like Aperture do not support Fat32. Not sure if that's also a problem then for Preview.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24491
Were you successfully reading and updating over a period of time and then noticed you had a problem with 'empty' files or has it been this way since you attached the PC drive to your Mac? If it just started happening, what were you doing with those files or any files on the drive? It may not be the files, but possibly the directory that is at fault and can't find the file content.
Just for your information if you ever add a new drive or reformat the drive to be the recommended Apple format, ensure it is partitioned GPT (GUID Partition Table) and formated HFS+ (Mac OS Extended Journaled). Of course you'll want to copy everything somewhere (do you have a PC that might successfully access the files?) to back things up before you reformat!

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