how do i know which hotmail or gmail i used first on this account?

it would be really Help full hope u can help me to recover my old hotmail

ok. so I've added my sons gmail account as an alias. if I make the gmail primary how does that effect the Hotmail account & how I log in to my laptops? can he log in to his xbox with the gmail (& see his gamertag & profile) & can I log in to my devices
with the Hotmail address?

My son is only 7 I am managing this all for him. So it pretty cut and dry, displayed that message first login attempt. Also, if I go to that link for pass reset you provided it quotes an email of his microsoft username "itsMiles" with @hotmail on the end of it. that has never existed. When I signed up for his microsoft account for his minecraft usage, I used his gmail account which I also manage. So unless the microsoft account generated a hotmail account on its own for some random reason the only email ever used with his microsoft account is his gmail. Same way I use my microsoft. No hotmail our outlook email or any of that.

Hi,

Every Microsoft Account automatically get's that same interface. You can make an account with @anyemailaddress.anything and it would still display that same Hotmail like page when you login to it. It's just letting you know that it can import your mail from
Gmail or any other provider straight into Hotmail.

Signing into the account on Gmail will sign you into your e-mail inbox and you can proceed normally, signing into your Xbox.com account and then going to Hotmail.com will automatically transfer you to the Hotmail.com interface but your gmail e-mail's won't
be displayed there unless you actually import them.

It's simply there because Gmail is a Google service, and Hotmail is a Microsoft service. Anything to do with a Microsoft Account is automatically paired with a sudo Hotmail account. You don't actually have to use that Hotmail at all, it's simply there. You'll
still receive all of your mail at your Gmail address in regards to Xbox.

The new microsoft account (hotmail) has no gamertag. I want to transfer the gamertag linked to the gmail account over to the new microsoft account I've created. I've no idea how to do this though.