Windows 10: How to open and read Small Memory Dump (dmp) files in Windows 10

When a running Windows application stops or crashes unexpectedly, your system generates a ‘crash […]

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How to open .dmp file?

Hi Josue,

We would like to know a few things about your concern with opening a dump file. Kindly answer the following:

• Which tool are you using to open a dump file?
• Are you getting any error messages when you try to open the file?

We would also want to know why would you try to open a dump file. Opening and reading a dump file is for advanced purposes and we would like to know the answer to the questions so we can refer you to the right MSDN forum.

You can also refer to this article about reading a dump file for future
reference.

We'll be waiting for your response.

 

Memory dump file?

Don't know if this will help you or not?
http://support.theplanet.com/kb/ope...d-memory-dump-files-windows-creates-debugging

 

Need help analyzing dump file.

If your computer crashes, how can you find out what happened, fix the issue and it prevent it from happening again? You may find the small memory dump file useful in this situation. The small memory dump file contains
the smallest amount of useful information that could help you identify why your computer crashed. The memory dump file contains the following information:

• The Stop message, its parameters and other data
• A list of loaded drivers
• The processor context (PRCB) for the processor that stopped
• The process information and kernel context (EPROCESS) for the process that stopped
• The process information and kernel context (ETHREAD) for the thread that stopped
• The Kernel-mode call stack for the thread that stopped

To create a memory dump file, Windows requires a paging file on the boot volume that is at least 2 megabytes (MB) in size. On computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000, or a later version of Windows, a new memory
dump file is created each time that a computer crash may occur. A history of these files is stored in a folder. If a second problem occurs and if Windows creates a second small memory dump file, Windows preserves the previous file. Windows gives each file
a distinct, date-encoded file name. For example, Mini022900-01.dmp is the first memory dump file that was generated on February 29, 2000. Windows keeps a list of all the small memory dump files in the %SystemRoot%\Minidump folder.

The small memory dump file can be useful when hard disk space is limited. However, because of the limited information that is included, errors that were not directly caused by the thread that was running at the time of
the problem may not be discovered by an analysis of this file.