When i recoverd an image it changed the hard drive size
I used Acronis True Image 14, to recover a 20gb hard drive image to a 250gb hard drive and now I can only access 20gb of the 250gb hard drive.
I should have used clone disk utility but I though the image was from a 250gb hard drive.
Is there any way to restore the hard drive back to 250gb.

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There is no unallocated space.
When you go into disk manager it only shows 20gb.
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Can you post a screen shot of disk management screen?
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I have attached a jpeg of the disk management screen.
Disk 0 is the same size as disk 1.
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Jerry. If you right click on the Drive C:(Disk 0) in the lower portion of Disk management do you see any options such as extend volume or shrink volume? What OS do you have? Looks like XP? What size does Windows Explorer show? Disk management shows drive 0 as 20GB.
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This is an old link but it may help. Which version of Windows involved?
32bit or 64 bit computer?
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/9303#comment-25052
If we understand correctly both disk sizes are actualy 250GB as printed on the disk label?
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Jerry with Disk Management open click on Device Manager,just above DM, then expand the disk drives section and post a screen shot of that so we can see exaclty how windows identifies your drives.
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I guess I didn’t ask the right question.
I am using Acronis True Image Home 2014, the image was made using Home 2011.
I have several old images of Windows XP 32 bit, some were from a 250gb hard drive and some were from a 20gb hard drive.
I mistakenly selected a 20bg backup and selected disk one recovery including MBR and track 0.
It changed my 250gb hard drive to a 20gb hard drive.
When I used Western Digital Data Life Guard Tools and checked the hard drive, it had made the following changes to the hard drive:
Size Cylinders Heads
250gb 238475 30401 255
20gb 19092 2434 255
My question is, how can I change the size and cylinders back, on the hard drive?
I’ve tried using Microsoft Recovery Council with the FIXMBR command and that did not work.
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This is an old link but it may help.
32bit or 64 bit computer?
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