Unable to burn in iTunes, due to drive letter change

Hello, I would like to be able to burn an audio CD through iTunes, but I am unable to change the drive letter assignment in iTunes since modifying my computer. When I first had iTunes installed, my burner was recognized as the D: drive. I have since upgraded and modified my computer, and iTunes has not adapted to recognize that my burner is now the E: drive.
I have looked through everything I can think of to change this through the preferences, but there is no place where I can modify it. Can anyone explain to me how to get iTunes to update the new burner drive letter assignment? I can't believe that Apple would limit/restrict the ability for the user to change something as essential as this.

Katrina, thank you for your reply. It was helpful, but isn't the solution that I am looking for. I don't want to change the burner drive letter assignment for Windows, what I want to do is to simply change iTunes recognition of what the drive letter is. I am familiar with how to alter Windows drive letter assignment for hard drives and optical drives, and this would probably work if I were to do it, however it would require that I do a lot of application reassignment as well, as I have installed many programs and applications on this other drive. There are many programs and applications out there that provide the user with the capability of telling the program where the burner is, but for some reason Apple does not seem to think that this would be beneficial to users, even though there are many who are knowledgeable enough to add a new hard drive or optical drive (burner) which renders iTunes burning capability unusable after installation of the new hardware. I'm sure that they did it intentionally so that the average user would not mess up their computer or iTunes, but for those of us who are computer literate this ends up causing us a great deal of grief. I'm just hoping that there might be someone out there who has more knowledge on the configuration of iTunes and would know how to force iTunes to look at a different drive letter for the burner over the drive letter that it originally recognized when it was first installed.

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