Help browsing with terminal

[spupy]

I tried doing chown with -hR and -R
I also tried using gang:gang, as well as gangularis to make them the owner.
then what happens is a listing of the files being changed goes through terminal, and at the end of each line it says read-only filesystem. basically the output i get looks like this:

chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff/VirtualDub-1.5.10/VirtualDub.exe': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff/VirtualDub-1.5.10/VirtualDub.vdhelp': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff/VirtualDub-1.5.10/VirtualDub.vdi': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff/VirtualDub-1.5.10': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff/VirtualDub-1.5.10.zip': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig/Old Desktop Stuff': Read-only file system
chown: changing ownership of `Big Rig': Read-only file system
gang@gang-desktop:/media$

then I go to look at a folder or file's permissions, and it still says "Owner: root" "Group: root"
it's stuck as read only, and I can't change the access still.

That is because chown is changing ext3 premissions. NTFS doesn't have such features, so chown wont work. You need to mount the NTFS drive for your user. But someone else can explain this, I'm not that knowledgeable.

[Gangularis]

Geez, I can't believe how complicated this is.. All I want to be able to do is take ownership of the files, so I can delete and edit them.