I've also changed fstab from the following:

dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat nauto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix oo
dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs nauto,user,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knopp ix oo
dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext nauto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix oo
dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 vfat nauto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix oo

to the following:

dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=000,gid=000 oo
dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs auto,user,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=000,gid=000 oo
dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=000,gid=000 oo
dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=,gid=000 oo

I'm guessing that somewhere along the line something is wrong cos i still get the message read only