Forgot email address used to create Minecraft account

RobinDally · Jan 8, 2022

Hi there, we have forgoten the email address used to created a minecraft account, we use it for realms too. We know the gamer tag, the username and have the card we use for the monhtly payments... but that's it.. any ideas how we can recover the account?

Thanks,

:)

Jesse E'

Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

I'm afraid only way to recover an Xbox account is via the account recovery form here https://account.live.com/password/reset

You can try all the emails you remember or if you had a phone number attached to the account, you can use that too.

Unfortunately, an account cannot be recovered using the gamertag alone nor the card details.

KindGryphon

Unfortunately without knowing the email address there would be no way to recover the account. Due to security and privacy reasons Microsoft wont tell you the email.

In these cases youll basically have to look through all the email accounts you can think of that you own to narrow down and find out which one is the one you made your minecraft account with.

WPAK

Hi there,

are you 100% sure you are using the correct email address?

See this link to check what the email address is:
support.xbox.com/.../forgot-microsoft-account-solution

If the email address is indeed the correct one, you will need to contact Xbox Support, since somehow it seemed to have created an new xbox live account on the same email address, they should be able to advise on how to fix the issue.

WPAK

Hi there,

if you signed up with a yahoo email address, then a Microsoft Account was created based on that yahoo email address. Which will result in a Microsoft Account with the yahoo email address as ID.

You can also try to recover the account, the how to is explained on this link:

support.xbox.com/.../forgot-microsoft-account-password at the section "What to do if you can’t use any of the password reset options"

Lucas Lauer

Do you remember at least the email?

If you don't, Minecraft Team suggest on their website: If you forgot which email you used to create your Microsoft account for migration you will need to speak with Microsoft support to recover the email address used to sign-up.

Take a look at the "I forgot which email I used to create my Microsoft account" section:

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/44...

You can try to contact Microsoft Support at:

https://support.microsoft.com/contactus

If you remember at least the email of your Microsoft Account, we can try to recover it.

Forgot email address used to create Minecraft account