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A core dump is a copy of the state of a program or OS. Usually dumped to a file when it crashes.

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Analyzing a dump file using WinDbg

I've been asked to explore a dump file (no source files given) using windbg and to extract some information from it: determine what is the issue (hang/crash) what module causes the hang. What is the ...
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Process Explorer (sysinternals), save lines/graphs as txt?

I'm using the "Process Explorer" from sysinternals to monitor the memory consumption of a specific process over time. This is quite helpful for the first step. For I a deeper analysis I would like to ...
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What to do when Windows can't get the BSOD crash dump?

So I'm running windows 10 on a Toshiba Satellite P50t-B10T laptop and getting the infamous DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION error. The usual procedure seems to be to take the memory dump and analyze it to see ...
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Powershell Script with Procdump

So I have a system that runs pretty slow at night when running a report. I've configured Performance Monitor to monitor the system. What I'm finding out is there is a process that is tying up all ...
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How can I know which blocks/sectors were last written to on an NTFS volume?

Is there a tool that would enable me to identify which blocks of data were last (most recently) written to an NTFS volume? Perhaps the NTFS volume's "$Journal" file might have information that can be ...
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After the BIOS boots, how can I dump memory?

After the BIOS boots, I'd like to dump the memory of the system. I have read about how it is possible using FireWire to do this, but have found no hard instructions or tutorials about it.
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Internal Power Error

From time to time my 1st attempt to turn on my PC fails (the motherboard manufacturer logo is displayed and then immediately PC shuts down). Every attempt after that is always successful. Here is the ...
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How do I prevent Windows Error Reporting from deleting my live kernel dump file?

I have a system (Windows 10, version 20H2, OS Build 19042.1052) that locks up regularly for a few minutes. It doesn't crash/blue screen, but a live kernel dump is logged in the Application event log: ...
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dump/restore used to take 40 minutes for 4 filesystems, now takes 24 hours

On my small business linux server, I use dump for backups. I have 4 file systems, (root, home, app1, app2), of which root is a "real" partition, while the others are LVM partitions. All are ext4. I ...
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How to make unique dump results?

I am trying to check if my read-only partitions in FreeBSD remains unchanged. I do this using dump: dump -R -h 0 -0Laf /dumps/boot.dump /dev/ufs/boot and then I compute its SHA256. I used -R to be ...
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Unknown explorer.exe crashes

Over the past week I have started to have explorer.exe crashes and as of yet have been unable to determine the cause. I am seeing in the event logs that explorer.exe is crashing and the faulting ...
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Kernel panics in FreeBSD 9.1 virtualbox

I'm regularly encountering a kernel panic on my FreeBSD 9 laptop. I have installed virtualbox host and trying to run CentOS as guest. When perform "yum repolist" guest crash's my freebsd host. Here ...
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why glassfish crashs randomely

I'm using oracle-glassfish3.1.2 on java 1.7 (I know these technology is a little dated) , when I start the server I use the verbose option: asadmin start-domain --verbose; I've also used asadmin to ...
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Audacity crashes when clicking the recording button

I've installed Audacity 3.4.2 on an up-to-date ArchLinux, using via sudo pacman -S audacity. If I open it and click the record button (or alternatively hit r), it crashes. And by crash I mean that if ...
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How to recover text typed into a text box on chrome after the browser refreshed and cleared all information (mac)?

I had a job application completely typed out after hours of hard work, and used the website's 'save' feature - however to my despair the website randomly refreshed and I lost all my answers! I've been ...
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Massive temporary file after a BSOD

I got a Windows 10 BSOD that collected results up to 55 or 60% then restarted. After the restart, I got a 2.31 GB file named DUMP18c7.tmp in the root folder of the drive where the equally massive ...
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Creating a Live Memory Dump to Non-System Disk

Note: This might be impossible with my setup and stock software/OS, too difficult to be worthwhile, and/or require custom software to be created. But, it would be useful for some people at times: ...
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explorer.exe crashing with HEAP_CORRUPTION randomly when using WIN+TAB

When I open timeline (either via WIN+TAB or button) and use it to select another window, explorer crashes and reloads. Nature seems to be random, sometimes it doesn't crash for few days uptime and ...
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Dump memory of process which exits immediately

I am doing a little keygen challenge (written in Haskell), which accepts one commandline argument (a license) and exists after checking if the provided string is valid or not. Hence I am not able to ...
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Dump USB Safenet Sentinel UltraPro to DNG file for emulate

I need to make a clone for USB safenet Sentinel UltraPro ? I tried to dump the files with the files from : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Dn-3oj0gH9M2OunUCw8H8kq1s2j6zyYg 1st I use the dumper.exe ...
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How to understand this crash dump

This a sample crash dump I have from the unit. Could anyone help me in understanding what these details mean? Example: [<c406dde4>] (sys_init_module+0x0/0x1878) from [<c400dd00>] (...
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abrt-ccpp.service: where are core files?

I'm newish to Linux and am learning about services, specifically abrt-ccpp.service for this question. I've been led to understand that if abrt-ccpp.service is installed on a Linux PC, it supersedes/...
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windows 7 memory dump (blue screen)

When I'm using chrome this windows crash happens again and again New ram upgraded Fresh windows installed RAM compatible with CPU Mini dump file here Can anyone debug this for me? Problem ...
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How do I know what a particular driver is used for?

Every few days my Asus X556UJ computer (Win 10 64-bit) restarts, sometimes with a blue screen of death (DPC Wachdog Violation). The dump files suggest that the issue is cased by the driver "wdiwifi....
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Multiple random BSODs

I've been getting different BSODs lately. The most recent, last night was while I was playing Fallout 4, my PC got hung up and gave me a system_service_exception (win32k.sys). I checked event viewer ...
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Dump BIOS from Mobo with no visual output?

I have a hardware problem or with an ASUS P5N-D motherboard. Issues: No visibility of whether the Mobo POSTs since no output from 2 Graphics cards using the PCI-E slot - no other display output ...
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Why the dump of my linux FS is ten times smaller than FS?

On a linux pc, Linux Mint 17+, I dump my whole disk ("/", level 0), with the following terminal command : # dump -0f /media/testuser/usbdiskblue/backup_2015MMJJ / I get a 6,3Gb file result. My ...
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how to save mysql dumps for N days?

Is there any best practice for saving mysql-dumps daily backups for 30 days and then delete them, without writing scripts that checks date and delete? maybe a builtin tool?
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Remote browser session debugging: Is there a tool to get a "core dump" of a browser's interaction with a webpage?

A user of my website is having a problem that I can't reproduce. It is maddening to debug, because all I can really ask the user (nontechnical person) is their OS version and browser version. Is ...
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Recover Data from a crashed process (with .dmp file)

I made a .dmp file of my process that crashed. It contained very important data. How will I recover that data. The process had it sat in ram, then hung half-way through saving. I made a 'Dump File' ...
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Make a database (Oracle 7.3) consisting of several .DBF files into one .MDF file (Oracle dump file)

Can you make a database (Oracle 7.3) consisting of several .DBF files into one .MDF file (Oracle dump file) in Windows 7 or so. Is there a tool that can do that "export" ?
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Memory Dump from VMWare Workstation 8

My goal is to get a memory dump from a Windows XP guest running inside VMWare Workstation 8. When I tried to to use the Right Ctrl+Scroll Lock+Scroll Lock combo there was no reaction on the screen, ...
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Windows 7 crash in an Acer Laptop, no dump created

I have a Acer netbook with Windows 7 64bit (it is an Acer Aspire TimelineX AS1830T-3927) where I experience a crash every few days. No crash dump is generated and no log in the event viewer are found, ...
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How to identify root cause from MINIDUMP? WIN8_DRIVER_FAULT?

My computer keeps restarting on its own randomly, and sometimes when wake it up, the screen is all pixels so I suspect I have an issue related to my graphics card. I'm new to *.dmp debugging, and I'...
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BSOD Memory Management

While I was playing overwatch, I got several BSOD. I already tryed Memory Diagnostic and sfc/scannow with no luck! I attach some dump of the BSOD! Thanks for the future answers! DUMP
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