Cannot Recover Gamertag as it wasn't created with a Microsoft Account

So after speaking with support, here's all the reasons why you might be unable to swap accounts (mine was that I recovered my account onto the xbox one). Seems a little excessive, and silly if you ask me.

- After you create an Xbox Live gamertag, you cannot change the Microsoft account that is associated with the gamertag for 30 days.

- After you create a new Microsoft account and associate the new Microsoft account with your gamertag, you cannot change the account again for 30 days.

- The new Microsoft account cannot have been associated with any other gamertag or billing account in the last 30 days.

- You cannot change the Microsoft account that is associated with a profile if the profile has been recovered to a new device in the last 30 days.

- The 30 day waiting period starts again each time you recover your gamertag to a new device.

- Only one Microsoft account change is allowed in a 30-day period (one change per gamertag). If you recently changed your Microsoft account, you won't be able to change the Microsoft account again until 30 days have passed.

- You must also wait 30 days after the profile was recovered from Xbox LIVE to a console before changing the Microsoft account. If 30 days have not passed after recovering the gamertag.

created you MUST join xbox live on the profile

you cannot use them on existing accounts

you cannot create profiles on the website and recover the gamertag expecting the free trials

Hi there,

if there wasn't a Microsoft Account (email address) attached to that 360 gamertag then there is no way to recover it.

A gamertag can be redownloaded when there is a Microsoft Account connected.

If you create a new Microsoft Account then you can create a new Xbox Live Account on it which can be used for online gaming and browsing the store etc. (Online gaming will require a Gold subscription though) but progress on games, purchases and gamerscore
etc is usually saved on the Profile itself so that's all lost.

The hacker could only have changed your account email address and deleted the old one. If it wasn't that, you could not be able to create another Microsoft account with the same email.

And if you change a Microsoft account email address, you will not delete the Xbox gamertag associated with it.

Probably the hacker is using your account to play Minecraft. You can contact Microsoft Official support but they will tell you the same thing: the only option to recover a hacked account is by using the recovery form:

https://account.live.com/acsr

If the recovery form says your account does not exist (because the hacker changed its email address) you cannot recover it. I'm sorry about that.

Hi, as I said unfortunately an account cannot be recovered with the gamertag alone, because its not enough proof of ownership

Please use the methods shared previously

If you're not able to recover the account in that way, you may need to create a new one