I have 2 hotmail accounts. #1 account I have had for a while. All of the emails are gone from #1 account. I did not open an Outlook account. My Hotmail address is still the same except it opens in Outlook. Do I need to open a Outlook.com acct to retrieve my Hotmail emails? I last logged on to my hotmail account just days ago. Inactivity should not be the problem.

Thank you