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So I’ve exhausted every option I can think of on this. My wife’s profile was deleted by our 5 year old. When she created the account years ago, she signed up with a email she has no idea she used. We think she used the “create a Microsoft live account” and it gave her a outlook email address, but it was never used so we don’t even know the email address. The other issue is we moved about 5 hours away, and we changed our mobile numbers instead of porting them. So we can’t use the old phone number to get into the account. Why can’t we just use her gamertag to say forgot password and then answer security questions? Is the account gone forever? I can see her on my friends list and it’s so aggravating because it shows no details what so ever. Any ideas?

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God that’s so frustrating. Literally all the digital games is just hundreds of dollars wasted now.

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Yikes. I think you need to put the Spurs in the ground there bud. Spare parts.

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Right. I agree. But they could at least ask security questions along with the gamertag for this exact purpose. I mean an email is just a username. Why can’t we just go to live type in the gamertag and hit forgot password and answer security questions like you would with an email? That’s what kills me. I really appreciate all your suggestions and help though!

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Yeah I saw that instruction earlier. Unfortunately for that to work, you have to still be signed into the account on the Xbox

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So update. I went to the gamertag lookup on Xbox website and it said her gamertag doesn’t exist and says “you should claim it” But she’s still showing as one of my friends. Now I’m really confused

Nope just the Xbox one.

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Nah never needed the receipts. I’m the main account, which we purchase everything through my gamertag. Just so happened she was signed in and made some purchases through her gamertag thinking we were under mine. Wasn’t a big deal, until our kid deleted her damn profile.

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Yeah I just got done with the support and no go. They said “we’re sending a code to the email and phone number associated with your account” Like ummm this is why we’re talking...we don’t know the email and the phone number has changed. Basically got told tough shit. I just think it’s crazy they still haven’t allowed us to use the gamertag as a username to try and sign in

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