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Well what about telling people exactly what you want to do? For example what's a "w8.1 media rescue USB"? An usb port that rescues your Windows 8.1? From what? Drowning? A fire? Being stolen?
Sorry but try to be exact about what it is you really want. If you hat written something like: "I took an image of my Windows 8.1 system disk which is 223 GB. Now I want to check if this image works and restore it onto another disk which is only 500 GB. Is this possible?" everybody would have understood what you meant. Instead you wrote this: "Will an image 223GB of 1 Tbite HD go into another 500GB HD?" which can basically mean anything from creating an image to restoring one.
It's you who created the confusion. And now that you have clarified at least some of what you are trying to do the answer is simple. In order to restore an image onto another hard disk there must be enough free (unpartitioned) space on that disk. Some imaging programs might allow repartitioning during the restore process but generally images can only be restored if there is enough free (so called unallocated) space.