Disk; Director; ADD12; Installation; Issue; Failure

Acronis Disk Director 12: Installation Fails with "An error occurred during the installation of the assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT"

Symptoms

An attempt to install Acronis Disk Director fails with an error message similar to the following one:

An error occurred during the installation of assembly
'Microsoft.VC80.CRT,publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.762",processorArchitecture="x86"'.