The same Acronis Disk Director 12.5 product now supports the server and non-server operating systems. The Server license is required for server operating systems, the Workstation or Home license for other operating systems.
Support for Windows Server 2016.
Support for native 4K disks (disks that report a 4 KB logical sector size). Previously, only 512-byte emulation disks (512e) were supported.
The maximum size of a volume that Acronis Disk Director can manage in the Demo (trial) mode is increased from 100 MB to 10 GB.
Compatibility with Acronis True Image 2019. Both products can operate on the same machine and on the same Linux-based bootable media. Use the media builder provided with Acronis Disk Director to create this media.
Updated Linux kernel in bootable media to support modern hardware.
Issues fixed in Acronis Disk Director 12.5
[ADD-3153] Windows ADK v1809 on Windows 10 is not detected when trying to create WinPE media via Acronis Media Builder.
[ADD-3109] Windows ADK v1803 on Windows 10 is not detected when trying to create WinPE media via Acronis Media Builder.
[ADD-2998] Windows ADK v1703 on Windows 10 is not detected when trying to create WinPE media via Acronis Media Builder.
Issues fixed in Acronis Disk Director 12 Update 2
[ADD-2997] The "Not enough memory to perform the operation." error appears when changing the cluster size of a 3 TB GPT disk.
[ADD-2993] Acronis Recovery Expert component does not work in WinPE bootable media.
[ADD-2980] It is not possible to create bootable media with both Acronis Disk Director 12 and Acronis Backup 12/12.5 components at the same time.
[ADD-2978] The "Collect system information" option is missing in a bootable media environment.
Issues fixed in Acronis Disk Director 12 Update 1
[ADD-2936] The Acronis Disk Director bootable media builder component doesn’t work when installed on the same machine where where Acronis True Image 2016 is installed.
[ADD-2917] Acronis Disk Director crashes on reboot if the BootExecute key is NULL in Windows registry.
Known issues
[ABR-162677] Creating Linux-based bootable media with both the 32-bit version of Acronis Disk Director 12.5 and Acronis Backup 12.5 is not possible.
Solution: Do not select the 32-bit version of Acronis Disk Director while creating the media.
[ABR-85153] Creating WinPE-based bootable media with both Acronis Disk Director 12.5 and Acronis Backup 12.5 (or Acronis True Image 2019) is not possible.
Solution: Create separate WinPE media for each of the products.
[ADD-3027] Reducing the size of a system volume or dynamic volume while working in Windows causes a prompt for reboot.