I finally figured out the issue. Microsfot has a new oulook version and if you click on the new version the hotmail account is not accessible. The only way to recover the hot mail account is is by using the new version.
lots of time needed to reconfigure the account to look and work similar to the old one.
Aboslutely ridiculus that you have to spent too much time and effort to recover what it was there.
I don't see any mayor functionality benefits on the new version.