how to become root to change ownership

[cygwin@10k.org]

somehow the permissions on my main drive became garbled. 
How do I go about fixing this? I have already tried 
loggin in as the administrator without success. Would someone
please shed some light on this? Thanks you. jake

539 <wdoz>[/c] ls -tld /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/g
d---------   12 ???????? ????????        0 Nov 19 01:24 /cygdrive/c/
dr-xr-xr-x+  35 jakez    None            0 Nov 19 01:24 /cygdrive/e/
d---------    8 ???????? ????????        0 Nov 19 01:24 /cygdrive/g/
540 <wdoz>[/c] chown jakez:None /cygdrive/c
chown: changing ownership of `/cygdrive/c': Permission denied
541 <wdoz>[/c] chmod 755 /cygdrive/c
chmod: changing permissions of `/cygdrive/c': Permission denied
542 <wdoz>[/c] ls /cygdrive/c
ls: /cygdrive/c: Permission denied

(running the latest snapshot 11/11/2003 dll)
-rwx------+   1 jakez    None      1081698 Nov 16 03:23 /bin/cygwin1.dll*