diff --git a/libntfs-3g/volume.c b/libntfs-3g/volume.c
index 389acee4..8ec4ba8c 100644
--- a/libntfs-3g/volume.c
+++ b/libntfs-3g/volume.c
@@ -512,8 +512,20 @@ ntfs_volume *ntfs_volume_startup(struct ntfs_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
 	
 	/* ...->open needs bracketing to compile with glibc 2.7 */
 	if ((dev->d_ops->open)(dev, NVolReadOnly(vol) ? O_RDONLY: O_RDWR)) {
-		ntfs_log_perror("Error opening '%s'", dev->d_name);
-		goto error_exit;
+		if (!NVolReadOnly(vol) && (errno == EROFS)) {
+			if ((dev->d_ops->open)(dev, O_RDONLY)) {
+				ntfs_log_perror("Error opening read-only '%s'",
+						dev->d_name);
+				goto error_exit;
+			} else {
+				ntfs_log_info("Can only open '%s' as read-only\n",
+						dev->d_name);
+				NVolSetReadOnly(vol);
+			}
+		} else {
+			ntfs_log_perror("Error opening '%s'", dev->d_name);
+			goto error_exit;
+		}
 	}
 	/* Attach the device to the volume. */
 	vol->dev = dev;
diff --git a/src/lowntfs-3g.c b/src/lowntfs-3g.c
index a923da74..4f0bcd40 100644
--- a/src/lowntfs-3g.c
+++ b/src/lowntfs-3g.c
@@ -3906,6 +3906,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (err)
 		goto err_out;
         
+	/* Force read-only mount if the device was found read-only */
+	if (!ctx->ro && NVolReadOnly(ctx->vol)) {
+		ctx->ro = TRUE;
+		if (ntfs_strinsert(&parsed_options, ",ro")) 
+                	goto err_out;
+	}
 	/* We must do this after ntfs_open() to be able to set the blksize */
 	if (ctx->blkdev && set_fuseblk_options(&parsed_options))
 		goto err_out;
diff --git a/src/ntfs-3g.c b/src/ntfs-3g.c
index b3fa50d6..540ef473 100644
--- a/src/ntfs-3g.c
+++ b/src/ntfs-3g.c
@@ -3798,6 +3798,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (err)
 		goto err_out;
 	
+	/* Force read-only mount if the device was found read-only */
+	if (!ctx->ro && NVolReadOnly(ctx->vol)) {
+		ctx->ro = TRUE;
+		if (ntfs_strinsert(&parsed_options, ",ro")) 
+                	goto err_out;
+	}
 	/* We must do this after ntfs_open() to be able to set the blksize */
 	if (ctx->blkdev && set_fuseblk_options(&parsed_options))
 		goto err_out;