Where is Dumpchk for Windows 7?
I need to analyze a mini-dump. I searched for a way to do it and found a number of Microsoft articles that said to use the dumpchk utility and that it could be installed via the Windows 7 SDK. So I downloaded and installed the Windows 7 SDK making
sure the debugging option was checked. But dumpchk is nowhere to be found.
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April 19th, 2012 1:32am
Make sure you have the right package by downloading it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009.aspx
Depending on the architecture of your OS (x86 or x64) it can be found here: C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x64)\Dumpchk.exe
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April 19th, 2012 2:56am
Is this a user-mode or kernel-mode minidump? For kernel mode, it is typically preferable to use KD/WinDbg (see the second link below). For user-mode dumps, you could use cdb or ntsd...
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Mike Burr
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