The invention relates to a method for operating a 
brake system for motor vehicles, comprising several wheel brakes (8, 9, 10, 11), an electrically controllable pressure supply device (5, 100), which can dispense a determinable pressure medium volume (V) for actuating the wheel brakes, and an analogized or analog-controlled 
inlet valve (6a-6d), which is arranged in each wheel 
brake between the pressure supply device and the wheel 
brake, for adjusting wheel-individual brake pressures (pn). A 
check valve (50a-50d) is connected in each case in parallel to the inlet valves, which opens in the direction of the pressure supply device, wherein, at the start of a wheel-individual 
brake pressure control, all the inlet valves (6a-6d) are closed, and wherein a pressure build-up is carried out in a predetermined group (A1, A2) of one or more wheel brakes (8, 11, 8, 11) by displacing a pressure medium volume (VA) into the predetermined group (A1, A2) of wheel brakes by means of the pressure supply device (5, 100). Each 
inlet valve of the one or more wheel brakes (8, 11, 8, 11) of the predetermined group (A1, A2) is controlled in such a way that the 
inlet valve is overflowed, wherein each inlet valve of the remaining wheel brakes (9, 10, 11, 8, 9, 10, 9, 10) is controlled in such a way that the inlet valve remains closed. The invention also relates to a brake 
system.