What happens to my old email address for Microsoft account which was deleted on its email...

I've actually already went through the account recovery form and Microsoft was unable to verify that it was actually my account with the information I was able to provide. I'm fine if the system deactivates the account, that's actually what I want. I just wish it would deactivate it sooner. 5 years is pretty far off. I'm also quite surprised that Microsoft is willing to keep a dead email address in their system that long. While 5 years is longer than I'd have hoped for, I do appreciate your informative response. Thank you for your help! 😄

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Hope you're doing great today despite this MITHRAVESNA

If you want to recover the account you can proceed filling the refund form below:
https://account.live.com/acsr

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

If you’re not able to recover the account the system is going to deactivate it. But for this the system waits 5 years starting from the last time that you logged into the account

With Microsoft accounts, they actually deactivate it if you haven't signed in within 2 years, not 5.

When you say you deleted your old email address do you mean you deleted it from Google?



Deleted it as a Microsoft account?

Where did you delete it from?

Unfortunately there is not a way to transfer a Xbox profile from one Microsoft account to another.

What you could do if you did not purchase anything with the new Microsoft account.

You can add a dummy email to the Yahoo Microsoft account make that dummy email as the primary email and then remove the Yahoo email from that Microsoft account.

Then add the Yahoo email to the Old Google Microsoft account and make the yahoo email the primary email for that account and then you would be able to remove the Google email from the old Microsoft account.

All this is doing is changing the email address that is associated with signing into your Microsoft account.

Hi Tyler!

What's your new email domain? If it's a 3rd party email address, you could just simply unlink it from its current account and move the email address to your old account. If that's a Microsoft email, there's no way we could transfer it over to another account.

We could only do switching of primary email address as long as it's a 3rd party email address. It doesn't work with Microsoft emails since their emails are Microsoft account itself. Removing them from the account means deleting them permanently.

In regards to data transfer, it's not possible. Our account licenses and other data will always remain on our account.