Booting into Boot Camp gives a blank screen

Hello there, nice to meet you all.
I have an old mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13", and a while back I set up bootcamp on it so I could run Windows 7 and Mac OS. I prefer to have both for various reasons.
But just yesterday, I was experiencing difficulties with using the Windows partition of the drive. It constantly froze and gave the message "Display driver has crashed and has successfully recovered."
It was bugging me, so I closed down all my programs and applications, then restarted my computer. But after I held down the [alt]/[option] and selected BootCamp, the computer screen just went to black instead of the windows loading screen. I thought it may just be taking a while, but I waited over thirty minutes and there was no sign of it starting back up, or even any kind of change at all. I tried turning up the brightness, adjusting the volume, and trying to click around for maybe a response. But no such luck.
I forced a shut down on my Mac and let it start up naturally to its Mac OS. Everything is working perfectly on that end.
Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here, or if there's a fix?
And if not (meaning I would have to wipe the windows OS and reinstall bootcamp) does anyone know if there's a way to access the %appdata% folder from the Mac OS side? I have all my important files saved, but I had some important tabs open in my web browser (firefox) that I'd prefer not to lose, and I'm fairly sure that data is kept in that folder, but it's hidden on the Windows side.
Thank you for reading through all that, any answers at all are greatly appreciated!
-Tanner

Your Mac (from MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) - Technical Specifications) indicates a nVidia GT320m. If you have Windows set to automatically update and any driver updates are pushed to the Mac, you are likely to see this behavior. Can you boot Windows into Safe Mode? If yes, you should rollback the GPU driver (check what version you have before you rollback) and install the BC driver instead.
On a Mac, if the BC drivers are installed (and you are not on Yosemite), both OSes have read-only access to partitions of the other OS. For example, in OS X, you should be able to open the Bootcamp volume in OS X Finder and see your files. The reverse is also true, and you can see the OS X files in Windows Explorer.

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