Time capsule deleted old image after factory reset and setting up a new user

Something strange happened and I can't seem to find anyone else having this question. A friend lent me her macbook air for some time so I backed up her current system to my Time Capsule and "restored" a fresh copy of mavericks in my name, (I deleted everything on the computer). Her backup was safe (I thought) on the time capsule, I checked and it was there.
After I was done transferring some files I needed and setting up this new macbook in my name I was going to set it up to the time capsule as well.
It said that the identity of the backup disk had changed and then after making my new copy of my setup hers disappeared. How come the TC erased it? I suppose I can go Data Rescue 3 on the TC, opening it up, people has said that should work reading on the forum, my question is there another way? Why did it erase the other Macbook air copy? It did not have the same name or anything. It would be so frustrating to have to open it up and recover the data. Has this happened to anyone else?
The TC is 3 gen A1355, 1 TB, I updated the time capsule's firmware to 7.6.1 and I use MacBook Air mid 2011 with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks,

It cannot have deleted it from what you have told us.. the only way to erase the disk is to click erase in the airport utility or deliberately select and delete the file in finder..
BUT if you use mavericks I suspect you may be seeing how well its networking really functions.. ie hardly at all.
Please use the Pondini method to open the old sparsebundle.. or do it manually.
Start with Q17 and follow the links. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
You should also see the used space in the TC is a fair bit more than what is used by the MBA and it should show 3 sparsebundles.. your old OS.. the owners version of the OS, and your current version of the OS.. although Mavericks has a nasty habit of messing up the previous ones.
Too late for now.. but you did it the wrong way.. next time use a disk image.. Disk utility can make a full image of the drive.. but it is easier to use bootable clones from Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper etc. TM is hopeless for restoring a whole install.

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