What is memory dumping?

Ans.It is a process that writes technical information to the hard disk of a computer has stopped unexpectedly, usually used for debugging purposes. The cause of the memory dump can be problem with device drivers, hardware or software. You can load small memory dump files by using the Dump Check Utility (Dumpchk.exe). You can also use Dumpchk.exe to verify that a memory dump file has been created correctly. You can also read small memory dump files by using the WinDbg tool or the KD.exe tool.

The default location of the dump file is in C:\WINDOWS\Minidump and it is having the extension as .dmp.