In Windows 7, the paging file can be on a partition that differs from the partition on which the operating system is installed.Another complete memory dump (or kernel memory dump) file is created.
If the following conditions are true, the previous file is overwritten.
If you select the Complete memory dump option, you must have a paging file on the boot volume that is sufficient to hold all the physical RAM plus 1 megabyte (MB). A complete memory dump may contain data from processes that were running when the memory dump was collected. Windows can generate any one of the following memory dump file types:Ī complete memory dump records all the contents of system memory when your computer stops unexpectedly. You can also configure Windows not to write debugging information to a memory dump file. The debugging information can be written to different file formats (also known as memory dump files) when your computer stops unexpectedly because of a Stop error (also known as a blue screen, system crash, or bug check). You can configure the following operating systems to write debugging information: This article describes memory dump file options for Windows.Īpplies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2 Original KB number: 254649 Summary
