I hope this isn't in the wrong place here:

I have a linux on hda1-4 and data on hda5 on a 20G disk. I had another disk with windows on. so after getting a bigger disk and installing it, no more windows.

so here's my plan: if windows doesn't notice it's moved house it won't mind, which means that i should be able to actually COPY windows to hda5 (as now I have a bigger disk for all the data)

now the prob, hovever, might be to make windows regard as c: the partition hda5 (which, as a matter of fact, is not the first on the disk)
I'm afraid I don't really know what my question is, as the first thing I would do is give it a go with fdisk which might be able to make the point clear to dos. so this might be close:

am I wrong? is it no good trying? is there any experience around? does anyone think it might work? I'll post a success story if it should. thanx in advanx

windwos is crude and dumb, it will refuse to acknowledge the linux partitions exist, and just use the first "valid" partition it finds as it's C drive (wtf does "C:" mean anyway?!) what you'd need to do is change your linux bootloader to chainload onto hda5, which is hd(0,4) in grub speak, and windows should normally load just fine.