The camera/webcam on my Windows 8 laptop says that "something went wrong while taking this picture" when I try to take a picture.

My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad S405 with Windows 8. The webcam is a Lenovo Easy Image that is manufactured by Vimicro and is built into my laptop. Every time I try to click to take a picture, an error message pops up that says "something went wrong while taking this picture". Another strange thing is that four of the videos that I took are listed in the camera roll, but don't have graphics and cannot be played. All of my earlier pictures and videos are still there though. I have watched the videos before and they were still present, but now they are gone. I have not made any changes to settings or anything else on my computer, and control panel seems to think that the camera is still working. I have tried updating my computer with Windows updates but nothing is working. I have also just discovered that my photos folder is no longer working and Windows says it can be safely deleted. I can't access any of my photos, music, or videos. I think the problem might be that my photos have no place to be stored, but I need to know how to fix this.


Thanks,
QuartzCanteloupe