UE5 removed from drive and cannot repair?

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Hello,

After installing Unreal Engine 5 via Epic Games Launcher, it was removed from the drive and now I cannot launch it as it says “Repair”. Makes sense, as the files were removed, but I cannot repair or uninstall the engine now.

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See the error above. How can I maybe stop the game launcher from wanting to repair or uninstall, and just be able to install it again?

Thank you.

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Can’t say if it will work but, try uninstalling Epic Laucher; then, through explorer, delete the “Epic Games” folder in both “program files” and “program files (x86)”; just to be safe, reboot the computer/device and finally try to reinstall EL and UE.

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I was wondering if I should give this a go, but was hoping for a more straightforward solution. I will wait awhile in case somebody has a definitive solution, otherwise I will try as suggested.

Thank you.