This question started as Changing file permissions on USB external hard drive but as I can find a solution I ask again.

The problem comes when I move a USB drive I have been using in Ubuntu 10.04 to a lapto with 12.04. I want to change permissions of some scripts as they appear only with rw but I can't.

Now I have tried to copy the device line from fstab from 10.04 to the laptop with 12.04 but still get an error message.

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:

mount: only root can mount /dev/sdb1 on /media/FREECOM HDD

The line I add to fstab to try to mount the usb drive is

/dev/sdb1 /media/FREECOM040HDD vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush 0 0

When restoring original fstab and plugging the usb drive the output of mount is

/dev/sdb1 on /media/FREECOM HDD type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)

What should I add in fstab to get the drive fully working? I wanted to change permissions on files in the usb drive.

Output of sudo fdisk -l

Device     Start      End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdd1              63  1953520064   976760001    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Thanks again