Which operating system feature will show a hard drive's status?

Tasklist is a command-line utility that lists currently running processes and their PIDs - it has no awareness of disk hardware.

Administrative Tools is a Control Panel category that contains shortcuts to many utilities including Disk Management itself, but it is not a feature that directly shows drive status.

Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) provides a graphical view of every physical disk and volume attached to the system, showing status indicators such as Healthy, Failed, Unallocated, or Uninitialized. It allows administrators to see disk type (basic or dynamic), partition scheme (MBR or GPT), and capacity at a glance. No other built-in tool gives this consolidated hardware-level view of drive status.

Ping is a network diagnostic command that tests IP connectivity between hosts and has no relation to disk or storage status.