Recovering A Microsoft Account Based On Username

Hi There,

Another one would be to contact Microsoft Support and give them as much information as possible about your account and see if they can restore it to you that way.

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

Hi there,

You can try the account recovery form: https://account.live.com/acsr

Enter as much information as you can. Beyond that, there is nothing anyone in the forums can do unfortunately.

Hi! My name is Ben a fellow member here in the community, not part of Microsoft. Hope you are doing well!

That is strange that your account got deleted as adding a phone number for recovery information wouldn't delete it, it will only got deleted if you have deleted the account manually on the Microsoft account page.

It is possible that your gamertag is associated on a different email address than the one you have tried to check. Do you remember having another email account that you might have used for Xbox or other Microsoft services? Once you sign in your account at https://account.xbox.com/profile page you will see here the gamertag and if its the correct one it will show the "ImpliedGarlic95" gamertag.

You may also try to recover your username via this page by entering your phone number https://account.live.com/username/recover

I hope the information helps in recovering your account. Feel free to post back if you need more help and we will try with the best of our knowledge to assist.

Kind regards,

Ben

Thank you so much Ben, I used the username recover page to recover my old username but because it was a microsoft generated username i cant remember it. Is there any way to unhide the username so i can open my account again?

i do not remember the email i used for the microsoft account migration so i cannot type it in to get my username recovered

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent advisor.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help on getting your account recovered for Minecraft.

Since you were using a Microsoft account for this, this cannot be unlinked to your PS account unless you have access and this can only be unlinked from your PS account as well as it was linked from there in the first place.

You can try recovering the Microsoft email by using this username recovery option here:

https://account.live.com/username/recover

For this to work, you really need to recover that Microsoft account so you can access it again. If not, I would suggest reaching out with PS to check with them an option to unlink it.