Please help, deleted Sparse Bundle!!!

So I have done the worst thing and accidentally deleted my Time Machine Sparsebundle, I have since done an erase and install, and I have no way of getting the bundle back. I can see that my fils are still on my TC, as it shows that I have 434.63GB available on a 1TB hard drive.
My question is; is there a way to access my files again without the sparsebundle or is there a dummies guide to making a new sparsebundle to access my files. I hav tried using TM to backup and see if it merges new with old backups, but it won't. I have years of important data I am trying to recover, any help is good help.

You are well past the point of no return if I understand you..
I have since done an erase and install, and I have no way of getting the bundle back. I can see that my fils are still on my TC, as it shows that I have 434.63GB available on a 1TB hard drive.
Why would you erase after having deleted the sparsebundle?
Perhaps you don't mean erase.. you mean reset.. an erase would cause all the content of the TC to be lost.
My question is; is there a way to access my files again without the sparsebundle
No, the sparsebundle is essential to TM.. the files are stored in a special format not accessible to anything but TM.
You have one hope.. open the TC and remove the hard disk. Put it in a USB to sata holder. and plug into a computer.
You will need to buy a utility like disk warrior or data rescue and attempt to recover or rename the sparsebundle or at least extract the backup folder from inside the sparsebundle. If it works it will be immediately obvious. Otherwise the backup I doubt can be recovered.. even if you do the full recover, it cannot put the files back together.
If you have no idea what you are doing.. you might be better simply paying for it to be done. Send the disk to a data recovery centre.. it will cost a mint but if the files have to be recovered you have no choice.

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