Drive permissions error 0x80070522, driving me insane

Alright, so I just recently did a fresh installation of Windows 10 onto an SSD, and now I'm trying to get at all my personal data, which is on a separate HDD.

I can access the data it seems, but whenever I try to do certain things like write to the root of the drive for example, I get the following error:



I have tried a few different online solutions with regard to tinkering with the permissions, and none of them have helped.

Any ideas? Windows permissions are so incredibly frustrating.

This was written for windows 7 and is applicable for windows 10:
Creating a new file in C: drive gives error 0x80070522 Solved - Windows 7 Help Forums

How to Fix Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client?

Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client (FIX) - YouTube

Make sure that you do NOT continuously disable UAC as you will expose yourself to malware.

I've already looked at those links. Am I to believe that I'm not allowed by Windows 10 to write to the root of ANY drive, by default?