Analyzing a crash dump from another macine.

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I have a Windows 2003 server but I have a crash dump from a Windows 2008 Server. The symbols for the 2008 Server are in C:/Windows/Symbols2008 and the symbols for the 2003 server are in C:/Windows/Symbols. I want to look at a crash dump file (.dmp) from a Windows 2008 machine and I want to point WinDBG to the symbols for that machine. Would someone give me a brief tutorial on how I can set up the symbols so I can have them available when I read the crash dump from a 2008 machine?
Thank you.

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xxxxx@charter.net wrote:

I have a Windows 2003 server but I have a crash dump from a Windows 2008 Server. The symbols for the 2008 Server are in C:/Windows/Symbols2008 and the symbols for the 2003 server are in C:/Windows/Symbols. I want to look at a crash dump file (.dmp) from a Windows 2008 machine and I want to point WinDBG to the symbols for that machine. Would someone give me a brief tutorial on how I can set up the symbols so I can have them available when I read the crash dump from a 2008 machine?
Thank you.

The symbol file names are marked with a unique time stamp. You can put
symbols from ALL of your systems in a single directory. I certainly do.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Set your symbols path the the Microsoft symbol server and you’ll have available symbols for all versions of t he currently supported OS’s.

Gary G. Little

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Subject: [windbg] Analyzing a crash dump from another macine.

I have a Windows 2003 server but I have a crash dump from a Windows 2008 Server. The symbols for the 2008 Server are in C:/Windows/Symbols2008 and the symbols for the 2003 server are in C:/Windows/Symbols. I want to look at a crash dump file (.dmp) from a Windows 2008 machine and I want to point WinDBG to the symbols for that machine. Would someone give me a brief tutorial on how I can set up the symbols so I can have them available when I read the crash dump from a 2008 machine?
Thank you.

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  1. On the File menu, select “Symbol File Path.”
  2. In the “Symbol File Path” dialog enter “C:/Windows/Symbols2008”.
  3. Click on the check box labeled “Reload”.

That’s it.