Permission denied when running script, but correct file permissions and ownership are in place

Question

I am unable to run scripts that I previously had been doing:

$ SCRIPT.SH
bash: /media/USER/PATH/bin/SCRIPT.SH: Permission denied

Checking the file permissions and ownership, that are as expected:

$ ll PATH/bin
total 1
-rwxr--r-- 1 USER USER 1425 Aug  5 09:23 SCRIPT.SH

I have also tried running the scripts with sudo, and even given a test script full permissions:

chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rwx SCRIPT.SH

Everything leads to the same bash: Permission denied message

Background: The scripts are located on a USB HDD, as they were when they could be run.
What has changed is: the drive label,
The updated .bashrc PATH entry for the 'new location'
PATH="/media/USER/MOUNTDIRECTORY/bin:$PATH"

And so the volume was mounted at the same 'named' place, an fstab entry
UUID=UUID /media/USER/MOUNTDIRECTORY ext4 defaults,user,auto 0 1

I'm clearly missing something!

Unmount that filesystem and remove the mount option user as it implies noexec which will prevent binary executable e.g. /bin/bash from running on that virtual filesystem mount ... Then, mount it again and it should work.. — Raffa, Aug 05 '23 at 12:17
or alternatively, add the exec option after user like defaults,user,exec,auto — Raffa, Aug 05 '23 at 12:23
... see for example Why am I still unable to run a script on NTFS partitions after remount with suitable perssimions? — steeldriver, Aug 05 '23 at 12:24
@Raffa, thank you so much, that seems to have worked nicely. A valuable lesson there, I knew I should have dug deeper into the fstab settings! — Broadsworde, Aug 05 '23 at 12:24

Permission denied when running script, but correct file permissions and ownership are in place

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