My Time Capsule "went Kaput" but I "think" the Hard Drive is ok.

I took the hard drive out and plugged into an enclosure and it shows up as two items;
An AWS swap and AWS swapconfiguration. I click on it and it doesnt show anything.
Perhaps its format is different than a normal one.
Can anyone give me advice on how to read the files so I can save some of them?
Thanks,
Skip

So I've spent the day wondering what tack to take with this thing. I'm not clear on why it would disable the WiFi connectivity but that's what happened with the first one too. I can't imagine paying to recover 1TB of data so I was trying to figure someting else out.
1. I thought about ripping her open to take out the drive but what then of the router part? Will that be useable any longer?
2. I thought about trying to connect the TC to my iMac and attempt downloading files from the disc direct, if that were even possible, but I was assuming I'd need a crossover ethernet cable, which I had--once--but couldn't locate.
3. I tried daisychaining a USB through some other externals to the iMac but that didn't work.
4. However I had it in the back of my mind that TM created some sort of proprietary file system when backing up to TC and that they wouldn't be available anyway. Reading above I can't tell if I was right or wrong in that supposition.
Anyway, you all sound like a clever bunch. What would be the best approach to take here? I ordered myself a Netgear router from Amazon as a back up just in case. (I can return it within 30 days if I don't use it)
5. Is it possiblle to remove the drive and just use the TC as a router?
6. I can't tell you what itereation of TC this is. The drive isn't being recognized so I can't get any info on it. It's at least from 2010, I should think. I think it may be a 3rd gen and my first one a 2nd gen but that would only be a guess.
Sorry to go on...
I have added some numbering to help answer.
Let me start with number 6 because it matters.
6. Get the model number off the rubber base mat.. it is A1xxx .. you may need strong glasses to read it.
It can make a huge difference if it is gen2 or gen3.
1. You can remove the drive.. the TC then becomes an airport extreme. But the power supply might be dead.. particularly if it is gen2.
2. You do not use cross-over cables anymore.. and haven't for several years. All networking is now auto sensing. And yes, if the disk still works then plug in TC to the computer by standard ethernet patch cable direct to the computer. You might need to factory reset to get it going.
3. USB is only for disk and printer connection to the TC. You cannot link to TC via USB. 
4. The file system of the TC is standard Mac HFS+.. but the sparsebundle is not directly readable.. you need to use TM to get the files out of it.. that is possible even with hard disk out of the TC.. if the disk still works. See Pondini http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html  Q14-17 on how to get info out of the TM sparsebundle and Q18 on how to move the files.
5. Yes, we covered that one.
Basically you have to pull off the rubber peice on the bottom- its a pain- you wind up ripping it off.
Heat the rubber mat with a heat gun or even just a hair dryer on highest heat lowest fan setting.. heat for a good 5min and then slowly peel.. the glue will all come up with the mat.. keep heating if it catches. I have never ripped one.. (repaired around 100 of them if I heated the mat).
Best instructions for disassembly here.
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/Apple_Time_Capsule
It includes the use of heatgun.

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