Lightroom 5 can't open any photos prior to mid 2010!!

Hi everyone,
Today, while browsing through my Lightroom catalog  looking for some older images, I noticed that LR5 could not open any images (NEF, CR2, JPG, TIFF, etc.) from mid 2010 and prior! The error message only says: "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo. You will not be able to make adjustments to the photo." !!! The thumbnails are all blank!
I was very surprised as I haven't used any other image editting sw for the last I don't know how many years. I wonder if anyone has come across a situation like this? If so, are there any ways to reclaim these images. I have some precious photos of my mother before she passed away and don't want to lose them an any cost.
It seems all these files are somehow corrupted. The only thing I can think of is when I switched over to LR5 and the image catalog was updated, something in the process went wrong, though can't be 100% sure. I did try to open the files in a separate viewer (non adobe) but that also failed. I'm using a Macbook Pro with the latest OSX (Mavericks). The images are on an external encrypted drive. From 2010 onward, there are no issues and everything is available.
Any help/suggestions will be much appreciated.
Thank you

Did you by any chance update to Mavericks in the mean time? Mavericks had some corruption issues with external hard drives if you are using the drive manufacturer's software. The safest thing to do with an external drive, regardless of whether you are on windows or Mac, is to reformat the harddrive when you get it using the native tools in the OS to the OS' native filesystem and to NEVER install the manufacturer's software as it is invariably extremely bad. The fact that your other software cannot read the files either tells me this is a hard drive corruption issue likely. Lightroom does not touch the original files so that likely has nothing to do with Lightroom.

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