Microsoft account is tied to an old email that no longer exists

Hi Beard. My name is Kyle and I'm a player like yourself who loves helping other consumers with their PlayStation questions. While I can assist with most questions, I cannot access your account details to provide information on billing/account queries.

To protect customer privacy, Microsoft can only help customers verify their account ownership through the online recovery form: https://account.live.com/acsr

If you remember any new details that might help with the recovery process, it's encouraged to keep trying to recover your account using the online account recovery form.

https://support.xbox.com/help/account-profile/manage-account/lost-password-solution

Please reach back if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Kyle

Building on the wise Mistress Sara, account recovery is likely the best bet. There is a difference between the email account and your Microsoft Account. Your Microsoft account can be tied to other emails, and would have to be specifically closed. The
recovery option is the best route because it should provide other options for account recovery other than sending an email to the account that no longer exists.

Im having the same issue my old email was a hotmail email but hotmail no longer exists and is still linked to my EA account

Also, I've been sent links by the EA folks on how to link a gamertag to an Origin account, but the problem still exists that it wants me to pick a new gamer id (which I shouldn't have to do because I already have one), and when I enter my pre-existing one,
it says it's already taken! The EA people were going to help me merge the pre-existing account (that's tied to a decade old email that's apparently no longer working) to this weird 'account' thats asking me to pick a new gamer id, but only if I can gain access
to that decade old account that's apparently no longer working. What's going on & how do I fix it?

M3tal Daz.... By the way and CoinChutoy is both me.....

So I don't want you to think I don't appreciate your help, I am very grateful....

However I went and read all of what I could tell might help me from the link you provided.

I think the part you may be missing is the fact that the email address I would want to change to "ALREADY" is assigned to a Microsoft account which I also use to tie to my MSDN account, etc....

So if I go to my old account and try to follow those steps (which says to first add the other email address then make it primary then remove the old) I can't get past the first step because it gives me an error "email address is already being used". So
to try to clarify what I need is...

I have an old Microsoft account with an old email address of which I no longer use the old email address and the only thing I use the old Microsoft account for is it just has my xbox gamertag with my Gold subscription tied to it (otherwise it would be useless).
So the account/email I wish to move my gamertag to is used daily and I have other stuff tied to that account, like my MSDN subscription, OneDrive and other things.

So as I was simply asking how can I move a GamerTag to another existing microsoft account/email without access to an xbox 360?