Since you bought the Belkin cable, you should try their support:
[url]http://www.belkin.com/support/product/?lid=en&pid=F5U258[/url]
I suppose that you are not connected to the Internet while your computers
are completely unprotected - that would lead to horrible complications.

"Mary E" <Mary [email]E@discussions.microsoft.com[/email]> wrote in message
news:2FB4AF7C-8516-47A3-822F-8CE4F5C99520@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I surrender!! I can not get the easy transfer cable to install on my old
> computer (xp with service pack2). After installing from cd and restarting
> computer, I plug in the cable and I get a "error installing hardware.
> Acess
> denied". When I check the device manager folder, the cable is listed as
> having no driver and I am instructed to reinstall driver. I downloaded
> the
> updated install from Belkin but that doesn't work either. I have disabled
> my
> firewall, turned off all spyware and security programs, disabled the
> network
> connection(someone told me that it might cause a conflict),downloaded the
> Easy transfer program that is found on Vista. Basically I have done
> everything that I can think of. I am at a loss.....Please help if anyone
> else has this problem[/color]