Microsoft KB Archive/262077

= Support Added to Ntoskrnl.exe and Savedump.exe to Save Mini Dumps =

Article ID: 262077

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q262077



SUMMARY
Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server include the ability for the Windows 2000 kernel and the Savedump.exe tool to extract a mini dump from a full kernel dump.



MORE INFORMATION
A single field has been added to the memory dump file header, which points to all the symbols that are used to create a valid mini crash dump file. You can use this information when you are performing kernel-mode debugging of mini dump (64 KB) files. In addition, Savedump.exe has a new block of code that automatically writes a mini dump file concurrently when it writes a full dump. The mini dump file is saved in the %SystemRoot%\Minidump folder, and has the following file name format:

Mini000000- .dmp

Additional query words: minidump

Keywords: kbinfo KB262077

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