"Resource map is incorrect" - msg.  can't open QT mov.

I thought I safely backed up a number of files, including movies and stills to an external drive. Now when I try to open these, I get the following message:
*The movie could not be opened. The resource map is incorrect.*
This is a first for me - and a scary one, although I think I have other copies of most of these files on another drive. I wonder what happened? Googling around, it seems others have had this experience - possibly a resource fork being stripped in the data transfer...and apparently, virtually no way to reconstitute or recover, although someone thought that a ResEdit expert (I'm not that) might have some luck. The same thing happens when I copy these files to the desktop.
With the jpegs, I'm getting a message: *Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn't recognize.*
I'm at a loss...you'd think your backed up files are safe. As I recall, these were simply dragged from files on my computer to the plugged in external drive - as I've done for years. Oddly enough, a few of the movies in certain folders do open up - apparently not affected.
A real mystery. Any help/suggestions appreciated.
k.

Thanks BD and Japamac,
MS DOS/FAT - a Windows format? I don't think so. This is a Seagate Barracuda 200 GB/7200 RPM typical of drives I use to back up files. It's possible it wasn't formatted correctly, although every drive I have gets the usual initiation. Get Info tells me its Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
One of the files that does open is a 5.83 GB QT movie.
I'm going to drag a few files into this drive to see what happens: OK, dragging a 1.67 GB movie into the external drive gives me an error message (Error code - 36): "Finder cannot complete operation because some data in (file name) could not be read or written" This is a file that plays fine in QT player on my computer. Let' try a few jpgs": These are Graphic Converter copies, but GC isn't recognizing them (Unknown format message.) Tried a few more QT files and Picture Viewer ones - all getting Error-36.
Could the drive be corrupted in some way?
I think Japamac's idea to use cloning from now on is a good one..but D&D never failed me until now...
What about wiping this drive and reformatting? Any recommended optional procedure in Drive Utility?
Also: yes, this is FW, and I've had no issues with the cable so far. Will try another external drive to make sure.

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