my hotmail have been removed as an alias

Question

I think my hotmail have been removed as an alias, i cant recreate or sign in to it. I had a minecraft account linked to that hotmail, since the hotmail is gone, i cant sign in to minecraft too, so my minecraft account is also lost. Can I recover my minecraft account somehow?

Answer 1

If the Hotmail address was removed as an alias from the Microsoft account, and it was a Microsoft-domain address (such as @hotmail.com), it is permanently deleted and cannot be recreated or associated with any Microsoft account again. This also means that sign-in using that specific Hotmail address is no longer possible.

When an alias is removed, the underlying Microsoft account can still exist if there are other aliases on it. Access to services like Minecraft depends on the Microsoft account itself, not strictly on one alias. Recovery options are:

1. Try signing in to Minecraft using the same Microsoft account but with a different alias that still exists on the account (for example, another Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, or non-Microsoft email alias that was on the same account).
2. If the entire Microsoft account was effectively lost and the only alias was the removed Hotmail address, that alias cannot be restored, and the account (and thus the linked Minecraft profile) cannot be recovered through alias recreation.

The documentation clarifies that removing a Microsoft-domain alias is permanent:

• Removing an alias that is an email address from a Microsoft domain (like @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com, or @msn.com) permanently deletes that alias and it cannot be associated with any Microsoft account again.

If there is still another alias on the same Microsoft account, use that remaining alias to sign in to the Microsoft account that owns the Minecraft license. If no other alias exists and the account is inaccessible, the Minecraft account linked only to that deleted alias cannot be recovered by restoring the Hotmail address.

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References:

• Add or remove an email alias in Outlook.com
• Deleted hotmail email address from account - can I get it back? - Microsoft Q&A
• MSN email issues - Microsoft Q&A