Question
A few weeks ago my cousin recover his GamerTag in my Xbox-360 since we were playing Xplosion Man in at my place, and he wanted to get the achievements. Some time after, he started playing Red Dead Redemption at his place (and in his Xbox), getting almost all the achievements. Since his Gold membership had expired he didn't bother to recover his GamerTag in his console, but when he finally did, all the achievements he had gotten on Red Dead Redemption were lost.
Is there any way to get them back? His game files are ok, so now it looks like he has 100% of some stuff but no achievements to go with them.
Answer
Ok, if you are not connected to xbox live when you earn an achievement that achievement is stored on your local box.
If you then go and recover your gamer tag to a new box, the new box (and live.xbox.com) won't show those achievements. To have your achievements unified across all media you need to sign the box that earned them back into xbox live on that account.
Recovering your gamertag is a special processes where your gamertag is transfered to a new box and retroactively removed from all other boxes. Because you removed it from his old xbox before updating that achievements, you necessarily lost your ability to update those achievement.
I'm sorry, but you should always connect to xbox live whenever possible if you want to maintain your achievements. God forbid your box red rings and you lose all your work.
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