Data Recovery from TC 4gen drive

HI,
I just had problems with my TC, it shows "drive needs to be repaired" in Air Port Utility. After trying some backup via a connected USB drive (connected to TC) i did not succeeded so I just reinitialized the TC, keeping in mind using diskwarrior or disk drill for data recovery afterwards. The bad thing is, I can't reach the TC anymore with those tools, because it is a net drive?!?
Any ideas how to recover my data (photos, itunes lib etc.)?
Note: My question has nothing to do with Time machine.
Thanks in advance.

thanks for your reply, no other chance but replacing the drive out of the box?
I just read the
http://pondini.org/OSX/Recover.html
and I was afraid of such an answer :-).
Can you shortly explain, why it is not possible to recover a net drive?
I guess the cable connection via ethernet/Thunderboldt wouldn't change your advice?!
Many thanks anyway
And YES, factory reset was done
Message was edited by: luquaas

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