Can't verify the volume of my Portable Hard Drive with partition?!

Hi All,
After trying to delete my Time Machine partition to start it fresh I seem to have messed up the rest of my Hard Drive, and even after deleting the partition I now cannot create a new timemachine... It is a portable hard drive and I don't have enough room on my computer to transfer all the files to reformat the drive. Is there anything else I can do?
I keep getting these errors:
'The volume 'HARDRIVENAME' could not be verified completely.'
And also that repairing the hard drive cannot happen and I instead have to try to re-format.
etc
When I try to create a new partition I get the error:
'Partition failed with the error: File system formatter failed.'
Can anyone help? Many thanks.

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