Raid 1 Won't Mount

Looking for any help as I had some working files from this drive set and even temporarily could really use access to copy stuff over.  I had a similar problem with this RAID1/2x8TB sata drives mounted internally maybe a year ago. I updated my SoftRaid app it worked again.  I checked for updates and I'm all up-to-date.  This RAID1 pair (2x8TB) won't mount in windows 11.  If I go to view all disks, I can see them both.  I have a feeling I got some indication from Disk Health that one of these was predicted to fail but I did not replace it although I have not seen anything since and that was some time ago.  For a test, I cycled power and connected only one of this pair at a time.  FIrst the primary then the secondary.  When I powered on with only the primary I did not see the drive in Windows Explorer, but when launching SoftRaid I see it's asking me to add a member or remove member disks.  I'm hesitant to do that although I wonder if it would then mount and I can get to my data to copy safely then rebuild the set with a new disk.  However, I then cycled and removed the primary and only connected the secondary, and as expected, doesn't mount, but when I launched SoftRaid it sees the RAID.   I think it made this disk now the primary (maybe temporarily) and shows #2 missing.  It's slightly different in that it doesn't ask me in the window if I want to add/remove member I just see it's missing.  I also went to all disks and clicked on this drive and show healthy.  I'm wondering if there's a process of validation I should do or a way again of getting my data for now.  It seems odd if one drive failed I can still see them both and that makes me worry about removing a member as maybe one is corrupt?  If I were to remove a member from the primary set as it offered when I only had the primary connected, could I still potentially mount and read off the one that is still hopefully functioning correctly?  Thanks for any help and guidance!