iphoto help!

My hard drive crashed a few months ago. I had my photos backed up on an external hard drive. I hadn't set up the time machine though, just copied and pasted the photos into the hard drive.

Anyway, now when I look at the photos it seems like they have all been resized. Every one of them is small...any ideas as to what happened? Is there any way for me to get the full version back?

How is iPhoto involved in this? Did you copy your iPhoto Library to the external and now are trying to copy it back? Are you looking at individual pictures inside the iPhoto Library?