Harddrive volume

Yes, my old drive was 120Gig and the new one is 250Gig.

Hi davey,

If I understand correctly the image restored correctly but still shows the size of the new drive as the size of the old drive. The symptoms sounds like a common problem when using Windows 7 restore image. The image was an exact image conrtaining the original MBR (Master Boot Record) which has the drive size from your old drive.

Good news, if this is your problem, is that it is an easy fix.

Right click My Computer and select Manage. This will open the Computer Management window.
In the left pane of the Computer Management window select Disk Management.
The right pane will display data about your drives.
This new drive will show System Reserves, the restored image (C: drive), AND Unallocated space.
The Unallocated space is what the old MBR is not "seeing".
Place your mouse pointer over the dive shown in the bottom pane and right click.
Select Extend volume.
This will open the Extend volume wizard.

Notes on using the Extend volume wizard:
The sizes shown will not match those in the Properties of the drive because the difference in displaying a drive size in decimal and binary type notations.
The Select the amount of space in MB setting will default to the amount of unallocated space on that drive, so it is best to leave this value as is to get all of the unallocated space.
If you don't want any other partitions, click Next and Finish to run the wizard.

When completed the Disk Management view will show the unallocated space is gone and added to the restored image. This wizard rewrote the MBR to include the entire drive.

It is best to run chkdsk after extending to make sure no bad clusters happened during the extending process.

Let me know how it goes and if you need further help.