I mounted 2 partitions on my second HDD during installation at custom directories /Switch and /ss. My only problem is i can only write and modify to them with root and not my user account. How do i allow my user account to have all permissions to these 2 directories.

You will probably want to chown them with the group that you belong to...

for instance you can do an ls -al and you will see:

-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 135 Jan 11 13:30 foxtrot.sh

Here you can see that user root and group root owns foxtrot.sh file.

so you will want to chown -R user:group directory_name or file

When you do this, you might want to cat /etc/group to find out what group your user belongs to. Also, if you want, you can edit (vi, pico) your /etc/group and add a user to multiple groups.

Additionally, but not a great idea, you can change permissions using chmod to 777 -- which is equivalent to read, write, execute for user, group, and world. Check chmod out for that information... it can be done by number or by operations that look like chmod +rw filename_or_directory_name.

(For both of these options, pay attention to recursion. Also pay attention to umask)

I tried to chown -R kcpaige:kcpaige /ss and all the files say that operation is not allowed. I also did that with /Switch and got the same problem. IDK what to do next

Sounds to me like you need to adjust your /etc/fstab.

Are you doing this as root? or what user?

ls -l wil ltell you which user:group it belongs to, if it's root then login as root and run chown user:group /directory

what's the file system of the partitions? if it's fat32 and NTFS they don't support proper UNIX permissions, and so you'll need to set the umask value in /etc/fstab (the default permissions the files get when mounted/created.