The files are likely corrupted, then, either by your camera or computer hardware, or by software you are running on your computer. Posting a file online, or sending it to an e-mail address of an interested user after private-messaging them would help determine if your Adobe software is confused or if the files are corrupt. Do you have any other way to view the files outside of Adobe software, a Nikon-licensed viewer, perhaps, not the previews that many programs know how to look at, but the raw-data, itself.
Did you use Nikon Transfer to move the files to your computer? If so, it is an obsolete program that Nikon has advised people not to use because it corrupts the metadata in Nikon raw files of the newest cameras so that Adobe doesn’t recognize them.
A couple more suggestions for self-diagnosing what might be wrong:
1) Copy the files from a card-reader to your hard-drive using your operating system utilities (Windows Explorer or Finder), and then try to open in Photoshop, directly, (using File / Open) to minimize the number of things that have touched the files between when the camera wrote them to the card and Adobe software tried to interpret them.
2) Download a D800 raw file from a separate source and see if that file works. This will help narrow down if it is something about your camera or memory card or cable or reader or transfer process or if it is a misconfiguration of Adobe Photoshop. Here is a sample D800 RAW file from DPReview: http://movies.dpreview.com.s3.amazonaws.com/nikon_d800/DSC_0241.NEF.zi p from this page: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikon-d800-d800e/33
I can verify that the DSC_0241.NEF file downloaded from DPReview opens in PS-CS6/ACR7.1 and the thumbnail is visible in Bridge.
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