Figured out the grayed out issue when trying to restore an image with Acronis.

After days of trying, I have figured this out. In no way shape or form will Acronis "any version" restore an image to a smaller size drive, than the drive the image was created from. Yes, you can go in and manually set your parameters for each partition, and do a sector by sector restore, which could take hours or possibly days depending on the size of the drive. You can't clone from an image, "hopefully we all know that" so if you have and image you're trying to restore, and the destination drive is grayed out, you're out of luck. If your destination drive is the same size or larger, than the drive that created the image, you can highlight that drive and restore it. These are the facts! if you can restore and image to a smaller size drive, than the one it was created from, please show us how. So what I did was, clone the larger drive 500 gig that had 80 gig of used space, to a 120 gig drive using EaseUS, and laid out that image with Acronis, and was able to restore, of course to any drive 120 gig or larger, So, what I found out was, it’s all about drive size with Acronis.