Being brave I installed Windows 8 against all my better judgement, but actually I quite like it! And in itself its not a problem. What is a problem is trying to get all my various MS services under one place as it were. For example I have several MS accounts (due to moving house and being FORCED to create a new account for a new country in order to continue using xbox live for example).
What I want to achieve is simple.
I have a MS account using my own non-MS email address - lets call it bill@gmail.com which has most important things attached such as technet subscriptions!
I have an Xbox Live account which is attached to quitearudename@live.com which has unspent gamer points and allllll my game licences attached.
So the solution should be simple. Use xbox to switch my Live account to use my bill@gmail.com microsoft account.
Followed all steps untill it said "Sorry bill@gmail.com is not available". Hmmmm
Did some research and found that some point it had created an junk xbox live account to use with bill@gmail.com (probably just by visiting xbox.com while logged in as bill@gmail.com).
More research and see I can create a throwaway address and transfer teh useless xbox live account to the throwaway MSaccount. So I did that - transferred the junk xbox live profile to throwawayaddress@live.com and that went great exceeeeppppptt......
...Now bill@gmail.com is completely inaccessible. I cant log onto it (via live.com hotmail.com technet etc) as it says the MS account bill@gmail.com doesnt exist, yet when I try to create a new MS account with bill@gmail.com (via Windows 8, or xbox or live.com) it says its already taken.
Any ideas?
What I want to achieve is simple.
I have a MS account using my own non-MS email address - lets call it bill@gmail.com which has most important things attached such as technet subscriptions!
I have an Xbox Live account which is attached to quitearudename@live.com which has unspent gamer points and allllll my game licences attached.
So the solution should be simple. Use xbox to switch my Live account to use my bill@gmail.com microsoft account.
Followed all steps untill it said "Sorry bill@gmail.com is not available". Hmmmm
Did some research and found that some point it had created an junk xbox live account to use with bill@gmail.com (probably just by visiting xbox.com while logged in as bill@gmail.com).
More research and see I can create a throwaway address and transfer teh useless xbox live account to the throwaway MSaccount. So I did that - transferred the junk xbox live profile to throwawayaddress@live.com and that went great exceeeeppppptt......
...Now bill@gmail.com is completely inaccessible. I cant log onto it (via live.com hotmail.com technet etc) as it says the MS account bill@gmail.com doesnt exist, yet when I try to create a new MS account with bill@gmail.com (via Windows 8, or xbox or live.com) it says its already taken.
Any ideas?
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