New at Windbg - Desperately need some crash course??

Hello All,

I’m new at Windbg and I heard how powerful it is but I’m sure how to use
it. Would it be possible if someone can give a crash course on how to use
this or maybe direct me to some tutorials. Thank you!

Marci


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You should check out the Help documentation provided with WinDBG. It is very
thorough and will explain much better than any ‘crash course’ someone on here
could offer you. Namely you will want to check out the following sections:

  • Introduction to Debugging
  • Installation and Setup
  • Debugger Operation

Once you read those, you’ll be all set… sorry to tell you to RTFM, but it’s
the best way to get familiar with it.

sean

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I’m new at Windbg and I heard how powerful it is but I’m sure how to use
it. Would it be possible if someone can give a crash course on how to use
this or maybe direct me to some tutorials. Thank you!

Marci


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First start with the docs that come with it. See
http://www.microsoft/ddk/debugging for the latest version.

You can then use this list to ask specific questions.

The book “Inside Windows 2000” has examples using the kernel debugger to
discover system information (they even have a 3rd party tool that allows
you to do some simply debugging on 1 machine, basicly just reading
memory). As I remember it ships with an old debugger version. So if
you use their tool just replace their copy of the debugger with the
newest.

Books on writing NT drivers also usually contain a chapter or appendix
on how to debug. Not much usually but it is a good starting place.

Then other places like www.osr.com have multi-day courses on kernel
debugging you can take (and pay for).

Kernel debugging is not an easy thing & requires lots of knowledge.
Knowledge about the OS, knowledge about the tools, knowledge about the
hardware, knowledge about coding and knowledge about your specific
driver. The learning curve is significant. I think the best ways to
learn is to:
read books like “Inside Windows 2000” to learn about the system
constantly search the debugger docs
ask specific questions at places like this
spend time debugging
spend time debugging
spend time debugging

Good luck

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Subject: [windbg] New at Windbg - Desperately need some crash course??

Hello All,

I’m new at Windbg and I heard how powerful it is but I’m sure how to use

it. Would it be possible if someone can give a crash course on how to
use
this or maybe direct me to some tutorials. Thank you!

Marci


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