What happened to some of my images? Lightroom/Photoshop won't read them.

Hello,
I only shoot Nikon Raw, Using Lightroom to make adjustments and exports. I am using Windows 7.
I use an external card reader and always copy everything directly to my computer first, then Import to Lightroom. I then reformat the memory card, so I can use it again.
I have never seen this before  in my images.
After Importing Into Lightroom, on some of my images, (a few scattered instances) I'm seeing something that looks like this , an exclamation mark in a black circle that says;
Under Library Tab: "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo",  "You will not be able to make adjustments to the photo"
Under Develop Tab: " An unexpected end-of-file occurred"
Any Image, that has that icon on them, In Lightroom, I cannot make ANY edits or exports.
The file size looks right, I can see what the image looks like. I tried opening the image in Photoshop, but I get the same error message; " An unexpected end-of-file occurred"
Why can't these images be accessed by my photo editing programs?
Is the file corrupted ?  
Did it happen in file transfer, or by a faulty memory card?
Can I save the images?
What can I do to prevent this from ever happening again?

Hello,
Thank you for your replies,
I do put myself at blame. I did not make sure that all the images were successfully imported. I just copied everything and away I went.
This is a first for me. I did not think that such a thing could happen, I thought for sure that if anything like this were to happen, that an error message would pop up saying something like "some of your images did not copy properly".
Knowing all of this, am I doomed? Is there nothing I can do? Perhaps there's some debugging tool?
There's gotta be something, it cant be a total right off, can it?  Is there some method of recovery?
I really appreciate your replies,
Thank you very much

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