how to use cygwin to grant windows full control (xp)

[LMH <lmh_users-groups at molconn dot com>]

Hello,

I have just changed hardware and reinstalled windows. I keep my data on 
separate drives, but of course I no longer "own" the files. In the past 
I have just used a combination of chown and chmod -R to change the file 
ownership and permissions to my new user. This time, I have done this, 
but it didn't seem to work. I can't move or copy files like I should be 
able to.

I have done,
chown -R user_name /dir/

followed by,
chmod -R 777 /dir/

I am logged into an administrative user account. I would prefer to not 
use 777, but I need access to these files and 755 didn't work. If I open 
the windows permissions, I see that I don't have "full control" over 
files, and for directories, there are no permissions whatsoever  for my 
username (all check boxes are empty).

Can someone point me to a writeup on how to recursively change all 
directories and files to my ownership and give them reasonable 
permissions? I would also like to remove the old "unknown user" 
permissions that are there from my last install if there is a good way 
to do that.

LMH

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