2013-08-28

Does a clean install of Windows 8 recover existing Storage Space(s)?

Yes it does. of course, it would make the whole thing pretty useless if it didn't... Moving your Storage Space drives to a different Windows 8 machine should work too, though I haven't tested this specific scenario.

My advice however is to (re)install Windows 8 with all your storage space drives unplugged, then make sure the newly installed Windows 8 can access a non Storage Space HDD over all the mass storage controllers you will be using for your Storage Space array, and only then replug your Storage Space disks.