Reading a Win7 mirrored drive

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For reasons I can't be bothered to explain I have two hard drives that were part of a two drive mirror array set up within an OS on an SSD with Windows 7. Not a hardware raid mirror.

Can I plug one of the hard drives into my current Win 10 machine and get the data? I'm figuring it won't be as simple as just plugging it in and if I really have to I can get the old rig up and running again (I'll have to buy a new PSU is the issue) and un-array the mirrored drives, then it is simply a matter of plugging it in. But I don't want to buy a new PSU atm, for basically just one quick job!
So yeah, boils down to what happens when I plug a single drive from a software raid mirror created in Win 7 into a machine running Win 10. All 64 bit if that makes any difference. Which I doubt.
 
It won't hurt to try it. The worst that should happen is that W10 will say that the drive needs initialising and offer to do it to which you can just say no.
 
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