I recently did an install of suse 10.1 all went well untill today when i attempted to access my windows ntfs and fat drives to get my music. If i try to access them through the my computer button or if i try to mount them(they haven't been mounted) I get a little pop-up window that says "permissions denied" I have tried accessing them from my normal user and from root and neither works. Could someone please give me some advice as to what i can try?

Please post /etc/fstab.

/dev/hdb6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

in fstab on line where is your win particion add these line
rw,user,users,auto,umask=0000 0 0
so if it writes
/dev/hda5 /windows ntfs defaults 0 0
change it to
/dev/hda5 /windows ntfs rw,user,users,auto,umask=0000 0 0
im not sure about the umask if 0000 dont work try 0222

but in these fstab i dont see your win particion ...

The problem is i can't even mount them the only way i can even see that they are there(other than knowing) is by going into the "my computer" icon on the desktop and they apear there as media:/hda1(ntfs drive), media:/hdb5(ntfs partition), and media:/hda5(fat partition)

If i click on them there or right click and click mount i get a little window that pops-up and says "permissions denied" and a blank konqueror window opens up that says media:/hda1 in the title bar but there is nothing there.

Could it possibly be a problem with samba or wouldn't that apply here?

u cant mount as regular user u must be root
in console type
su
mount /dev/hda1 /windows(or what is your path to that particion)

Since these drives are fixed, you could run the YaST2 partitioner program so that they are mounted when you boot up.
For fat32 (vfat) and ntfs partitions you can use the "uid=" option to make yourself the owner of the drives. You will be able to write to the Fat32 drive and read from the ntfs drive.

ok this is what fstab currently looks like

/dev/hdb6 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/hda1 /C ntfs rw,user,users,auto,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /E ntfs rw,user,users,auto,umask=0222 0 0

I managed to get it mounted using yast partitioner but i can still only access it from root, i tried 0000 and 0222 neither worked for me i tried putting uid= with my uid but nothing lets me access it as my user it always says you do not have sufficient permissions to read file:///C (or ///E)

I'm really getting confused because ive never had trouble with previous installations of suse, is there anything else i can try?

Run the mount command by itself and see if they are even listed. You can use your username with the "uid=" option.
Also look at the permissions of the mountpoints:
ls / -ld