I Tried To Recover My *LOST* Hotmail After 6 Years, here's What Happened... 

The worst part is that you cannot even speak to anyone or chat about account recovery, the only option you have is to fill out a form that leads to nowhere.

Microsoft is so weird for real like "enter the emails that you have sent emails to" like I'm not gonna remember emails from 7 years ago

6:35 this is EXACTLY why the recovery form was completely useless to me -- the whole point of resetting my password is to replace my lost password, yet this forces me to make a crude guess of it. The fact that they use an automated system to validate your form further defeats the purpose of such a recovery form: it basically boils down to a more winding process of validating your guess against your lost password, precisely what the login screen does (even though this is merely my speculation since Microsoft gave no description on how accurately you must answer those questions). It's astounding how identical in nature such a form is to the ordinary login method, in that they require you to perfectly recall everything, and provide ZERO information on what parts of the form you answered incorrectly. It's frustrating but amusingly inane at the same time.

If the world has more people like you then it will definitely be a better place. Thank you so much Dude, you're the best..

Oh my gosh, I have the exact same problem. Yesterday my account was blocked. I have the correct login details, but hadn't updated the recovery email (it no longer exists). I tried all the steps you mentioned, I even mentioned my contacts and the exact subjects of recent emails (asked family and friends) and nothing (got the same reply as you did)...I still thought there was a hope, but after watching your story...it's just so frustrating!! And it's even more frustrating because I do have my login details. I didn't forget or lose my password, I have everything. I just don't have the recovery email anymore... I am so sorry you didn't get your account back after all these years. And I will also switch to gmail!

You're just speaking the truth buddy. Saying it how it is and also speaking for the rest of us.

Same happening here. Very, very frustrating.

I've spent days doing the same methods and denied every single time. I've provided a lot of personal info and nothing works! So frustrating. I've had my account for over 20 years.

Yeah I am in the exact same situation as you. I had a student account as my back up e-mail, but forgot to change it when the University deleted it. Then I got logged out of my hotmail account. So my recovery e-mail account doesn't exist anymore. So I need to do the same steps then you. I can even put in the Title and the person I sent the last four e-mails too and I still don't get my account back. I can provide a Skype contact (I can still login to Skype for some reason) and give Skype names that are on my contact list and I still don't get it back. Just tried again - then decided to youtube it and see other people have the same problem.

Perhaps a class action suit! Same issue, both my wife and I experienced same issue. In my case they send 4 digit recovery code to our landline! The recovery form is useless, trying to recall last 3 emails sent and subject matter, as well as security question that I haven't a clue to answer! gave up and joined gmail.

I had so many things in common with your situation. I just pulled up my gmail history too to see if I had anything linked to my old hotmail account and it looks like I have been trying this on and off for 5 years! That's insane. There really needs to be some way to contact a person in support.

8 years later and still no solution.

My son has had his hotmail account hacked and have spent a hole day trying to get it back. Recovery email is totally different. Gave Microsoft all the information requested and got the same reply. So mad would have thought they would have got it right after all this time.

Bro I'm in the same problem. My mom got locked out of her Facebook account and she wanted to change her password but she made her Hotmail about 10 years ago and it makes me mad how bad their support is.

55 and dealt with computers since 86' and your right if they had more people to contact you like Google does and give you 2 security option to retrieve your password or change it without blocking the account never had a problem with them It's been painful and even more watching you do everything I did and get nowhere. I know have to contact people I know have them sent me email to new Gmail account and go to everything I have and change emails because my concern is someone being about access this account being that I'm locked out of the domain our info is just out there. a boycott with wanting there accounts back in front of Microsoft is the only way to get their attention , (making noise)

Same problem 😭 I hate Microsoft 🤬😤👎

Same problem, it's so frustrating when you need to do lot of things over this shity email and your email sudenly is blocked.

why cant microsoft have a simple password reset function instead of having you go through this shit

Like most, I have two email accounts both Hotmail. If I change phones or laptop goes bad, the I.P. changes. I was get a sync email, but no place to access it. Same circle of password and email it tells me that someone owns that email. Yes, me. Now nothing! Ai is not working as without email, I can't connect with a Dr., business or friend. This is extremely frustrating! 1,000's of employees on campus and no one can help. I guess, write a letter.

The same my problem, I have faced since February 2023 😢. I am so exhausted 🥵to get back my email 📧 . Really, I appreciate you mentioned this problem in your channel . God bless

just ran into this exact problem after having this same email account for 13 years plus.. absolutely infuriating the loops they take you through to recovery and none of them worked for me either...

The only time I was able to recover my account was when I called Xbox. But this was years before they had made it so difficult.. since then I forgot my stuff again and have no way in recovering it. It's really frustrating since it's been close to 10yrs without access...

I have been dealing with this for a week trying to recover my son's xbox account. I logged him out and then 2 days later when he went to sign in we couldn't remember the password. Even though we have the device ID his name, birthday etc we still get denied. Microsoft said that if I speak to a xbox agent and provide them with when the gamertag was created, the device ID etc they can recover it. Yet xbox tells me the only way to recover it is by filling out the form. Clearly what they are doing Does Not Work!

I had the same thing happening to me. Thank you for making this video.

I’ve been having the same issues and have had my hotmail account for over 20 years, my phone number changed and it won’t take my new one. I went through all these stages numerous times just like you did and I am beyond frustrated with Microsoft. Why is there such steps and why can’t this be easier to get our accounts back? Microsoft needs to do something about this for those of us that have like you say, so many memories and even important current emails that we are not receiving because we can’t even get into our accounts, this has got be fixed on Microsoft side immediately

I did all this and eventually Microsoft told me I had enough information, so they sent me a link to sign in. I sign in and I was back to square one, with their phone verification message. I regret signing in to Hotmail in the mid 2000's.

Would love to get mine back I've filled all the box's and it does not matter still say not enough information

Someone hacked all my accounts associated with my gmail, including my Microsoft, they changed the email on the account as well as the phone number, I keep getting the same emails “Unfortunately our automated…” and I had spent over $200 on that account on the Microsoft store mostly on games. It pisses me off

similar to you, 13 years ago I created my account, suddenly & sadly I was blocked by them me from my own account, and now I cannot log in ever again.

Mines locked me out too last week 😢 I run my own business so this is really frustrating.

Hello, my problem is that my father lost his mobile and wants to get his gmail back, but he asks us for a phone number and an email that is the old hotmail that he does not have access to. The hotmail is blocked and to recover it we have to do it with the form, at first when I did it I received a message saying that they could not verify the ownership, but then I began to check emails that have ever sent them a message and that is how I found it in the me and other relatives and I put those emails with the same lines, and he told me that someone from the microsoft team was going to review it after about 2 hours they would return it to me saying the same thing that they could not verify the property and I do not know what to do.

hi im a major hotmail user for years even before yahoo and i have just hit this same problem on my account it is costing me hundreds to try and solve it is disrupting my hole system in life , affecting my consoles my emails my accounts on hundreds of important things, i can assure you i will keep on persuing this and i will not give in it is my life behind this account,,,,,, ,bad bad microsoft. this video is true insight into what is a major problem . 100 percent recommend this video 5 stars

Your English is more fluent compared to 2 years ago. I can't log in to my Hotmail either and I've been trying for many years

Thanks have pics of my son who passed and I can't get them

He helped me recover my account 👆 after I forgot my password.

Unfortunately I am in the deep of this now. My whole life is in my hotmail very old mail why they are doing this !!

For me i have the email but when i click get the code de vérification code dont show im my recovery email i hope guys understand me

Just be happy you didn't make an excite email, everyones stuff is gone now.

How can i recover my account? when i removed my hotmail account as an alias

I have the same problem. I think their algorithm is defective. You answer the questions they send you correctly and they still refuse to give back your Hotmail address. I have switched to gmail and I have advised others to do that. They have an inefficient, lousy system for verification.Maybe those they assigned to write the algorithms were not smart enough for the job!!! Thanks

Did you recover your account?

The acc is between 10 and 11 yrs old. I no longer have the number that's saved there. But when you search my name on Google, the old number pops up. Is there a way for me to tell Microsoft this?

My dad is losing his 30+ years account...

Many Thanks. Same challenge. I am based in the UK. This is a Challenge facing many as below messages, Microsoft need to do something about it.

Thank you and I'm the same issue but I need to recover it because need to change the email from EA :(

Yea definitely Microsoft needs to work on this... the page been the same for the past 3yrs.. I've lost mine when my account email said I had to log in credentials.. I mean least they can do is put a person to verify information... more jobs will keep this economy going.. they got phone support for banks why not Microsoft

Had similar issues today. Seriously this is poor and bad

Same problem for me. It’s linked to my socials for some reason as I never updated them so locked out of everything now

Me just wanting to watch this for no reason I don't know why haha

Same here, so annoying, its April 2023 and still the same, no changes , my outlook still freaking lost

thanks man you right i cant log into my old hotmail account

same problem here :(. Lost my 20 years email. I managed to talk with Microsoft support on Microsoft Facebook page but they just say that they cant do anything

Currently facing the same issue...It's an absolute joke!

Yes Miike, I am busy for years and years with pauze's but whatever info I put into it... it is totally useless. So I wonder when I call Microsoft in Holland, could I get more valuable info or support to get it back?? Peace out man, Rick.

How the hell did you get a resoonse ao quick? Ive filled rhe form out like 7 times and ive been waiting 3 days

I had all these problems and gave up on Microsoft. Tried all the fixes and got nowhere.

Same nightmare I have experienced.

請問您找會帳戶使用權了嗎?我也有hotmail信箱,直到今天都沒辦法使用,跟您的情形一樣,微軟很不人性,找回帳戶使用權設計的太難,讓人不知道怎麼辦,您有辦法可以幫我嗎？

Thank you I had same problem Microsoft thay give me hard time by sign in 50 times to purchase there items controlling our emil and un safe

My Hotmail account was linked with my origin account. I have a couple games on there that I'd like to play BUT I need to access my Hotmail in order to access this acount now. I am stuck and for the life of me cannot find a solution at this point. This system that Hotmail has,, is crazy.

How do I get my email back? I didn't make it but I gotta get into it???

This is the problem I am having its asking questions I can’t remember and there is no human to talk to

hello sir when i try to do it it says The Microsoft account you've entered does not exist. does it mean i lost my account 🤧🤧😭

I am having problem like this> In five months I am not able to get in my hot mail account.

My emails were not working so I deleted the app to redownload again. Now I am completely fucked up.they are not allowing me to sign in to any account. Unfortunately, mistakenly I entered one digit wrong of my phone number. So cannot get code there. The account was from 2008. Honestly, I did not remember to whom I sent emails. All the passwords i do remember have already entered but everytime they turn down my request. Another major mistake i had done that put this email as the backup email. So now except being frustrated I cannot do anything. In the name of do called security they have fucked up everything. If you or someone could help me, It would be much much appreciated

Back to your channel in 2024 hahaha any updates? Did you recover the account or just moved on?

24 hours has been done but even though I have not received any kind of email,buddy please help me to get out of this problem

Dam that’s crazy! Still no solution to this BULL SHIT

Yahoo is the same way. Can’t get back in. Super frustrating.

doesn't wok all Microsoft do is send codes to emails & phone numbers you dont have, Ive been through this many many times so ive just given up trying to get the email account back

I am having this exact problem, I don't know why I can't use some other method to verify my identity or even use my laptop's passkey to sign in, it just has an error. There should be other ways to prove your account and also have somebody manually help you. I have gone through support and chatted with at least 5 different people even some supervisors and people from other departments and they all gave me different information. Somehow, all they can do is suspend the account, they should be able to do more than that but I think it is because of policies that they can't do anything about it, that really needs to change. The thing I want the most is to be able to access my Minecraft account again, if you have anyway to help me get back into my Minecraft account please let me know.

There is also no phone numbers to call

Someone had hacked my hotmail account about 7 years ago and I've been contacting support many times, with no success whatsoever. Microsoft support sucks.

I lost my live account

My email isn't even recognised although I use it for my Facebook so I cannot even do the recovery form:/

Insane by Microsoft

It says my Hotmail account doesn’t exist

worse still, you get frequent messages to provide correct details, you cannot delete the account, quess why? because you cannot access it, it's insane.

this happened to my old gmail :( I even know the password. It asks me to verify it by using a phone number but sadly I don’t have that phone number anymore. I kind of like microsoft’s better cause you have more options. The other sad thing is I have only until july 2023 because googles new policy. I had another old email but I think I had a better chance of removing it because I hadn’t moved states from the state that I made it in. But..l this doesn’t mean I’m gonna buy a flight ticket to recover an old gmail.

My xbox broke down on me im trying to recover my account to put it on a different xbox so far 3 days same result each time not enough information 😕

I lost all of my past because of the security

Thanks for doing this video. Microsoft SUCKS! I can't get back into my account that I've had for over 20 years!! I'm sticking with gmail and icloud from now on.

I have the same problem,microsoft hotmail suck

This is my problem I had hotmail got hacked had a back of another email I can't access anyone and the hacker changed my back up email and can't access my xbox either I even took proof pictures

The same thing happened to me. They don't seem to care, but I agree that a simple contact via telephone sounds too easy. It ruined my business. I also had the same issue with trying to do verification of the accounts on social media. It seems as though automation is taking over customer service. Like the Terminator, the system has become self-aware. 😂

Am Having The Same Issue Until Today.I Lost my Github account just because i cant login to my hotmail account

Please let me know if u had a solution please, I really want my account back

Finally I found a video I can relate to. I have been trying to recover my account since 7 days. Neither the steps mentioned on support page work, neither the customer agent is able to help. That customer agent will create a ticket and suggest to follow the same step as what you have done in this video. It now seems impossible to recover my account.

Hotmail is cancer i cant login bc of a stupid verification that doesn’t work my head is steaming bc of that bs i need my hotmail but i can login for no cancerous reason

I tried to recovery email many times but still no reply

i have a lot of important stuff in my email, my website is linked to it and out of no where it was locked, i still know the pass i know every single person i have ever sent an email to and what the subject lines were, but still i can't recover it what an absolute shame

Will this help for my outlook account

what if it says account doesnt exist? i deleted my email from iphone email list outlook app and i cant get it back

I lost access to my 2 hotmail accounts (let's say x and y) and I cannot recover neither of them. x needs to send and receive code from y to verify that I'm the owner, then y needs to send and receive code from x to verify that I'm the owner. So I select I don't access to x and/or y and I enter all the right information I can provide, but their automatic system can't verify that I AM THE OWNER OF MY OWN ACCOUNTS. It's been over 5 years now.. 5 YEARS !! HAHA

Same problem here…so frustrating :(

im trying to help my dad hes had the email for two decades and this is all bullshit

Yo there’s a 2 versification ( activated all alone ) They’re sending Emails to 2 Mails that ask me for a double verification. The problem is that I was only using the same mail.. Now I can’t recover none of my mail because of my two accounts…

I'm trying to get my old account too but I also forgot my hotmail :( is there anything I can do?

I have the same issue and also i reach microsoft support and chat with them but they didn't accept to help me anyway . Really i need my account if anyone can help

iam tired off microsoft i have 3 hotmail that i cant back and thats stupid from microsoft is my informatie in my mail where is our privacy then