How to read Blue Dump’s (BSOD) Minidump file

From couple of weeks in my brother’s machine he was getting Blue Dump screen with message “DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL”. Today to investigate I asked him to pass me the minidump files. Minidump are file that windows write for debugging purpose at below location:

%SystemRoot%\Minidump

in the above folder you will find files with ext .dmp
if you open this file with notepad or any other editor you will not be able to read it’s content.

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