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Delete it!
... nowhere = somewhere else!
If you cannot put it somewhere else, delete it, then defrag the disk (can take as many as 10 times before you have a big enough space to put it back). Windows will run without a swap file (but it's better not to...), but for the purposes of having a contiguous swap file, delete it (click the No Paging file radio button, then click Set - no reboot required), run Defrag as many times as necessary, then reset the Max and Min how you like - I always have a Static (Max = Min) swap file, so there is no chance of fragmentation in the future - don't forget to reset the No Paging File radio button and click on Set).

Another (good) thing about doing it this way, is that you give more disk space to Defrag to do its work (so it runs a bit faster), so this is another reason to delete the swap file before defragging a disk.
Posted by Ray berry
24th Mar 2010