Trying to recover an old Xbox account

Have you tried the "customer support" option? That will have you fill out questions about the windows live id to go to that team. They will check your submissions and either issue a password reset or not.

Unfortunately, the Windows LIVE team is the only group that can reset your password.

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.

From my experience, support do not assist with account recovery, except it is for a hacked account. The only way around that is by using this form https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

Hope this helps

I have the account and routing number for my old card. It's on some old tax papers. Come on. Meet me halfway. Jeeeeeez.

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.
I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

Hope you're doing great today despite this Felice

As you don't remember your account email, I can advise you fill the account recovery form, in that way you're going to submit a ticket with Microsoft account recovery team
https://account.live.com/acsr

You can try all the emails you remember or if you had a phone number attached to the account, you can use that too.
Sadly, an account cannot be recovered with the gamertag alone.

If the recovery form is rejected you can submit the form two times per day

Also, you could try alternative methods to recover your account here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

Please note that no one here including regular Microsoft Support is capable to send password reset links for security policies

You will have to contact phone/chat support for them to assist you in recovering the account.

support.xbox.com/contact-us