Windows 10: Lost Certain Admin Privileges on C: drive after accessing E: drive with Windows 7 installation

I was trying to delete a lot of old files off my old hard drive (E. That drive (E: drive) has a Windows 7 installation on it. I didn't want to delete a bunch of files without a proper uninstallation so I booted up that hard drive to do just that.

At one point I accidentally clicked a file in my quick access that belonged to C: drive. Last time this happened it switched all my permissions from C: to E:, but not just for the specific file that I clicked, but everything from C: drive to E: drive. Last time this happened I just did a clean install of windows 10 on C: drive but that didn't matter that much then because I didn't have much installed.

However now, I'd rather not do a full clean install unless it's strictly necessary, I just don't know another way to restore full permissions to every file, application, etc.

It's even more difficult to figure this out because ever since I switched back to windows 10 (C from windows 7 (e, the start button and searchbar hasn't been working. However, everything else on the taskbar is working which allowed me to use windows explore. Right clicking the C: drive --> properties --> security and adding my username didn't help at all.

If it helps at all, when I booted up windows 10 again, all of my desktop icons for steam games were globe icons and I manually went into each properties section to give myself permissions to run them again.

In looking up the issue on the start menu, I found this website. It said to try and repair corrupt files. I followed the instructions to open "Powershell" and input "sfc/ scannow" to scan for "corrupt files" but it gives me the lovely message of "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility."

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