Why won't a .mov file run on a windows xp machine?

I have a 1 gig .mov file created for me by a video editor on final cut pro. It runs fine on an apple machine but my windows machines gives 2 errors: sometimes it says file corrupted; sometimes it says "error 108-an unknown error occurred".
Can't find any useful advice on the Apple website. Can anybody help or suggest anything?
Thanks.
HP   Windows XP  

Maybe its time to "return to the source". If you can arrange it, have the .mov file provided to you examined by QT 7.0X within the Apple OS. The .mov is a wrapper and it is possible that the video format(codec etc) within the wrapper is something unreadable by QT under windows OS.

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