QuickTime - "Not a movie file"

I hope this is the correct forum to post this question. So I had a TV station send me a drive with some footage on it. They're not on a Mac and couldn't export to ProRes, so I chose PhotoJPEG from their list of formate they could export. I've have good quality results with that format in the past and have exchanged that format with another shop that's running Avid and Fusion without any problems. Their file won't open at all, in anything. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and was wondering if their file is too big for my system... 71 GB.
Instead of five or six clips, they sent me one mega clip. I can't imagine if the codec wasn't compatible, that I would get that error "This is not a movie file." Usuall would tell me I'm missing something or play the audio only. The file has a QT icon (maybe just because it has a .mov extenstion).
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply.
Ahh, I forgot to check that. It's a Windows NT File System (NTFS) format. What are the issues with grabbing a file from an NT formatted drive?

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