My Time Capsule has a hidden partition and I can't access it!

I had a late 2010 MacBook Pro using Time Capsule as backup method. Recently, I sold this computer and bought a brand new MacBook Air 13 inches, which I started using in lots of different Wi-fi networks without doing an assisted migration. After one week I came back home and tried to migrate from my Time Capsule, but this computer doesn't seem to find the backup files. When I looked at the Time Capsule's disk, it has 242Gb used, meaning the old files still there.
The Time Capsule is assigned to the same Wi-fi network as the MBA and I have already tried to use Disk Utility to verify and repair the unit, without any useful results.
Has anyone experienced the same problem and found a solution?

Wireless has been more than problematic of late.
I recommend you go and buy the USB to Ethernet adapter Apple sell for the Air.. it is not expensive.
IMHO you cannot fix anything on the TC via wireless..
Once you have ethernet, try one of the manual restore methods pondini recommends if the migration still fails.
Check out Q14-18 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

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