How to recover account with xbox gamer tag?

Yes they were live accounts that's why they had gamer tags. A few years ago you can set up a gamer tag on the Xbox without the link to a Microsoft account so how do you recover these old gamer tags without a Microsoft account?

The xbox feature is part of your Microsoft account. Not all accounts have a gamer tag, but all xbox accounts are part of the Microsoft account. The gamer tag which is not a required feature of the Microsoft account is so that gamers can represent themselves
in a public manner to other gamers without revealing their actual account (which is the account email).

The gamer tag is not part of Microsoft security in any form, it may help you recover a lost account but just having a gamer tag will not give you access to or is part of the security for a Microsoft account. I did Xbox support for three years, I helped
recover many accounts while customer support was able to do that. I have never heard of a secondary gamer tag before. The only way to recover the account now is through the compromised account link listed above.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

My name is welcome to the community.

Hello PotatoMerchant, have you tried to recover your account through the account recovery form.

Recover your account

https://account.live.com/acsr

How to recover a hacked or compromised Microsoft account

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

Help with the Microsoft account recovery form

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

If you'd like to contact Xbox support via chat, click the link below.

https://support.xbox.com/en-us/contact-us

They are not trying to recover their account!! They have 2 gamer tags associated with one email address which is stopping one being able to log in...completely different issue

How do u recover gamer tag