http://blogs.msdn.com/dougste/archive/2009/06/12/this-dump-file-is-partially-corrupt.aspxI was investigating an issue today and needed to create a kernel dump on demand in my repro machine, a copy of Windows Server 2003 SP2 hosted in Hyper-V. I successfully blue-screened it (!): and left it to get on with generating the dump and rebooting.en-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)