Lost in WinDbg with 64-bit dump on 32-bit machine

Question

I'm a newbie with WinDbg and got this dump from the WER ReportQueue folder on a 64-bit Windows 2008 Server. I need to examine the dump and want to do so on my developer machine on which I've installed the Debugging Tools for Windows package. When I try to load SOS I got the following error which I've never seen before:

0:035> .loadby sos mscorwks
The call to LoadLibrary(C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\sos) failed, Win32 error 126
    "The specified module could not be found."
Please check your debugger configuration and/or network access.

My machine is running 32-bit Windows 7, which obviously doesn't have the Framework64 folder.

I need some advice pointing me in the right direction here. What do I need to do if I want to examine the dump from a 64-bit process on a 32-bit machine? Is it possible to do this?

Big thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you want to analyze a 64-bit process dump then you need to run the 64 bit version version of the debugger on a 64-bit machine. A dump from 32-bit process can be analyzed on 32-bit and 64-bit machine. So if you are sure the dump is from 64-bit process, it needs to be analyzed on 64-bit machine.