Is there anyway to find an email you used for an old account with just the gamertag?

Hi Adrian! My name is Darhyl and I’d be more than happy to help you with your query.

It's important to note that this is a public user-to-user community forum, and none of us here work for Microsoft.

I'm afraid the gamer tag and password will not help you locate the email address associated with the Xbox account. According to the Xbox official website, there is a set of workarounds you can do in order to locate the email address linked to your Microsoft account. Here's how:

Go to xbox.com and try signing in with the email address that you think is associated with your Microsoft account.

If you can sign in, the email address and password you entered are valid. The gamertag that’s associated with this email address will be displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen.

If you can’t sign in, check your other email inboxes for messages about your Xbox subscription or Xbox offers. This may help you determine which email address is associated with your Xbox profile.

Note: Think back to when you created your Microsoft account. Were you using a different internet service provider for email at the time?

You may follow the rest of the troubleshooting steps using the link below:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/account-profile/manage-account/forgot-microsoft-account-solution

If you're able to locate the email address of your account but unable to access it, you can proceed with recovering it through the account recovery web form:

https://account.live.com/acsr

Thank you for your kindness and understanding! Please feel free to let me know if you need anything else.

Best Regards,
Darhyl

Hi Jaguar!

Unfortunately you cannot unlink accounts - what is recommended here is to make a third "dummy" account, and use it to move your profile as follows:

"Old" Email

"New" Email

"Dummy" Email.

Move your gamertag from "New" Email to "Dummy" Email. Then move your gamertag from "Old" Email to "New" Email. At this point you can then just trash Dummy email, and your new email will have your old gamertag

You can find more info on moving your account here:
support.xbox.com/.../switch-gamertag-to-different-microsoft-account

Hope this makes sense!

i can't re download the account because someone changed the email to it but the gamertag is the same, it's just my gamertag except without the zero at the end. if there is anyway to get it back please let me know. this happened a year ago and i still remember
the original email and password used the old account.

If you signed in and it showed a default gamertag and no score that means the email you used to sign in was not the email on the old account.

With that being said if you are not sure of the email on the old account but know the gamertag you can contact xbox support by going to support.xbox.com/contact-us and give them your old gamertag and if they can verify ownership of the account they can give
you the email thats associated with that gamertag

What if you remember an old friend from say Rainbow Six Vegas and you message his gamertag and find that it's someone else that just took over the gamertag? People need to just find an ounce of creativity and originality within them and come up with their
own personal gamer tag. Why is it so hard? Even if you have to be Spartan62352, so be it. What if I like some guys email address and he hasn't used that email address in months? I want it anyway!!!! Does that make any sense?